Smartphone Addiction - metaphor analysis
Smartphone Zombies - created by Steve Cutts
The image shows that the device is turning us into zombie like creatures like those in the movies just that we don't go around and bite people.
The colour theme is very depressing to fit the post-apocalyptic theme that the image using cold colours and dark tone.
The art style is horrific to emphasis on the zombie apocalyptic feeling. Dark and scary looking humans, the difference between the normal zombie and smartphone zombies is that smartphone zombies has no rotting flesh or bloods but they both produce the same horror feeling.
The focus is on the humans
And the smartphone which is the subject matter
The outcome which is the us the human turning into zombies that is bind to the smartphones. The smartphones is the virus = the issue.
Colour theme is similar to the previous artwork because of the theme and it was created by the same artist.
This creates the metaphor that we humans are being controlled by the devices instead of the other way around. The art style creates a kind of feeling that even it doesn't look very real it still gives out the real emotion and message.
This was the original context in the image where the humans are shown as the superior authority but the real message it that behind us humans there is another authority.
Here the image shows that the smartphone are now in control of us the humans expressing how much we are relying on the technology.
The subject matter of the image.
Smartphone Tied to Hand
The smartphone is seen trying to grab the hand of the user as if like a parasite wanting a host body. This is the simple design and image that points out the device addiction issue that we can't let go of the device that it is tied to our hands.
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