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Digital girl (thumbing through the early teens) by kelly heaton

Sketch of a digital girl (thumbing through the early teens), 2017. Watercolor on paper

Sketch of a digital girl (thumbing through the early teens), 2017. Watercolor on paper

I continue to grapple with identity in the digital age. What happens to all of those selfies that we snap and upload all over the place? I can't access my data history on my iPhone 4 and that was less than 10 years ago. But woe to the teenagers of today, who are destined to revisit a public image record beyond their control.

open studio: harbingers by kelly heaton

Harbingers, 2015.  Digital photo-collage.  Kelly Heaton

Consumerism, pollution, dependence on fossil fuels, e-waste, climate change, off-shore garbage disposal, inequity of access to Earth's basic natural resources, manmade illness, children raised in ecological poverty, living conditions for future earthlings, the heaven that is natural Earth ...