In Weiter Ferne Analysis

The picture “In Weiter Ferne” from the artist Rafa Alvarez conveys the idea of technology enslaving the modern-day human through the use of setting, color, and character. The picture shows a young girl who appears to be between the ages of 18 and 22 in a room that is extremely messy but also has a part which is nice and clean. This is shown through the use of color; the messy part of the room is in a dark blue as if it is in the shadows hidden away and the clean part is in a bright pink from the computer light projecting from the laptop that the young girl is using. This picture is showing the viewer that the young girl has been enslaved into her phone. Another photo “The i-dealist” by the same artist Rafa Alvarez gives off a similar idea

The messy part of the room which is her “true” room, shows that she’s more of a tom boy. She has a metal guitar and a poster for metal music. A bunch of alcohol everywhere from a keg on the ground to bottles of alcohol on the shelf, to just a dirty mess with food and clothes laying everywhere in her room. Then when it goes to the clean are of her room which is shown from the light of the laptop screen. The room is organized, it has a poster of most likely a pop singer instead of a metal music poster, she has a bible and roses on a table with a teddy bear sitting on the floor and a packed backpack making her look studious. She’s doing this to show what society look for in girls. To help make the setting stronger the artist brings in the use of color. Rafa Alverez does a good job at this with showing the messy part of the room in a dark blue, the color which is used to convey a shadowy type of feeling, like hiding something from other people. The color blue also resembles a boy color, giving her true room a more boyish feel. Then he puts the clean part of the room in a bright pink, which is associated to

The obvious difference is the amount of people in the photos, in the first photo it is a young girl by herself talking to somebody. This is important because she is hiding her true identity to people, that nobody other than herself can know her true self. In the second drawing, there is two people more like a family, this is to show the modern day/family being addicted to their phone. In ““In Weiter Ferne” the girl is talking to somebody where she is only showing one part of her room. Where she is shielding the world of her natural self. Afraid to break social norms. While in the second drawing by Alvarez the main characters are on social media, this is diagnosed by the social media symbols all hovering over their head. This shows that they are obsessed with what other people are doing and not actually caring about themselves. Then there is the use of color in the two drawings. Now when they both have a purple/ pink color there is different color and the way the color is used is much different. In “In Weiter Ferne” the use of color is used heavily; the blue is used to represent a boyish feeling while giving off a shadowy type of feeling. Showing the viewer that she is ashamed of herself as she goes against the social norms of today’s society. So, in the pink in the picture it has the color pink which is representing more of girls, which is related to how girls should act which