In 2024, at the end of my university degree, I created my final major piece: The Crow’s Conformity.
This work was a real-world and digital exhibition sculpture, bringing together everything I had learned about 3D art up to that point. It became a culmination of my prior knowledge while also pushing me to experiment with new techniques and challenge myself creatively.
More than anything, I wanted the piece to carry emotional weight. It’s probably the most deeply considered work I had ever undertaken at that time.
During that period, I was feeling the effects of social media overload and the constant overstimulation that comes from spending too much time on a phone. That experience became the core message of the artwork.
The crow is tangled and constrained by glowing “social strings,” representing how easily our attention and thoughts can become ensnared by the digital world. It reflects the feeling of our minds being pulled, guided, and shaped by the systems around us.
At a broader level, the work touches on themes of consumerism and conformity. The cycle of obey, consume, reproduce. Inspired in part by the film They Live (1988).
This piece was my attempt to translate that feeling into a physical and digital form: a moment of tension between awareness and control.