Feb 14 2009
Networking Valentine
This image sums up my initial impressions of virtual networking. It’s a digital work I created for Valentine’s Day and sent out. The art is based on two scanned collages, edited, combined, and reworked– layer within layer within layer. Let’s call it digital collage. I love the possibilities and discoveries when manipulating computer imagery.
Remember the brown lunch bag taped on the back of your desk chair in elementary school on Valentine’s Day? Then on the teacher’s signal we’d all walk around with our fistfuls of heart and cuddly bear cards and play mailman. All the while keeping a watchful sideways eye on that cute kid as he neared your desk to see if he dropped one in your bag. Even then it caused me to ponder what “friend” meant when receiving cards from kids I barely spoke to. “Oh, I didn’t even know they liked me.” Or not.
Now through artist blogs and virtual social networking sites such as Facebook, I’m connected to close friends and family, but also to people I’ve never met. It’s fascinating. It’s weird. It’s engaging. Once again, it has me pondering what the word friend means.
The web has redefined “friend”. Plus, I’ve been prompted to brush on my foreign language skills, usually through translation sites such as lexicool.com. I’m humbled by foreigners’ command of English.
What’s all this rambling have to do with creativity? Back to the image.
