Final Artwork

The impact of social media nowadays is really huge. For example, let’s take a look at Facebook. News spread so fast in a split second because of the convenience the technology has made. Information posted on Facebook can spread really fast and to a huge audience of different geography and demography.

Though social media has brought the society conveniences to obtain information and news far from our reach, social media has caused some issues. Social media issue is considered as one of the most critical issues among the society as the technology advances. The reason is because most of the people in the 21^st century are connected to the media especially online media and that leads the people to voice out their opinion easily such as using Twitter and Facebook. With that situation, it causes certain issues especially issues on the government because it is seen as an act of damaging the image of the country.

Not only that, social media has made an impact to the people to become an anti-socialist. Like mentioned previously, most people are connected to the media and thus, people will be using the media more often than doing something else. Ultimately, the impact seen is social media kills time.

From the research I’ve made, I find that social media kills time is one of the legitimate issue. Hence, I’ve made my artwork based on this issue.

Throughout this project, I’ve learned that the Malay phrase “Sedikit-sedikit lama-lama jadi bukit” is true. 

Artist Statement:

“In this artwork, I’ve used a clock to represent the time as time is my main idea. I’ve located the clock at the center to show the main idea and it’s surrounded by weapons such as rocket, bombs, crocodile mouth, revolver and poisonous bottle. This is to show that how the impact of social media is to the society. I have also used purple as my background because I think it shows a contrast in my artwork and gives out a gloomy feeling. This artwork includes a few different techniques of using the brush tools and other techniques of using Adobe Photoshop CS6”.