lORA zOMBIE
Lora Zombie has art that doesn’t feel like any one else’s.
The use of color and the way the paint and art holds your attention is amazing.
When you see her art, there has to be a part that’s relatable. What is there
not to love about unicorns and panda bears? However, that’s what you would see
at a base level. Hyper attention would be the way that the art makes you feel. It
seems spontaneous and fun, with a lot of hyper, random colors. If you don’t
take the time to actually stop and look at what you’re seeing, you wont find
the deep attention that’s involved.
Hyper attention
is something that you can relate to skim reading. You can just run down her art
and take everything for face value; it may just seem like a lot of flashy
colors and random day dreams on paper. Hyper attention is a cognitive style due to a
generational shift in young people, which mean having a short attention span requires a high
level of stimulation, which will enable the thought process without
boredom. Hence, the stimulation comes from a source of networked or
programmable media. According to N. Katherine Hayles, "Hyper attention is
characterized by switching focus rapidly among different tasks,preferring
multiple information streams, seeking a high level of stimulation, and having a
low tolerance for boredom."
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On the other hand, if you take the time to read deeply in to
her paintings, you can tell that this grunge work is mostly a collaborative
call to action, which raise awareness to social construction in Europe. Most of
her work is very specific to certain turmoil. If someone just hyper-reads, they
don’t get the meaning like they do if they just put deep attention and thought
in to it. So for her art at least, deep attention probably helps the most to
understand the message.
