Please, Love me

The repetitiveness in our Internet culture is almost unavoidable. And the frustration to get the right message delivered, to write the right words to get our target attention grows with our dependency for devices. Most of the times we find ourselves writing things and deleting seconds after, changing punctuation, small or big details. The message never seems good enough. Our confidence is low and we are desperate to be noticed, to fit in. In this case getting the right answer may get that person on the other side of the internet to reply or even like us, that message may end our loneliness and despair. The only issue is that this ‘end loneliness’ is just an illusion. We are more likely to end up lonelier than we are with online relationships as your body desires connection. Human physical bonding reduces depression and the lack of it increases isolation. Online relationships can become very manipulative and take control of our lives. We are no longer allowed to focus on life without our devices, we are committed to our phones. We constantly need to be online. Online relationships are very demanding, we constantly need to reassure presence and love. Running out of battery can be a reason to the end of that relationship. 

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This work is exposing this anxiety and frustration to write the right words. The anxiety to be loved and the loneliness of reassurance.