GEORGINA GODFREY Hardwired, 2022

My artwork explores the prevalence of social media and technology, and how they overwhelmingly infiltrate every aspect of our lives with unnecessary pressure. I often find myself engrossed in my phone or laptop for long periods of time and am aware that I am not suffering this modern addiction alone. My artwork portrays the feelings of unhappiness, loneliness, and exhaustion that arise from the overuse of technology. My sculpture’s scale captures the enormity of the problem, with vertical rows of polaroids symbolic of computer coding, and the central glitched image representing how our reality is becoming disjointed because of our modern hardwiring.