This magnificent series has been created to show the connection between 'the futility of dwelling on a broken heart with the uselessness of channeling frustration towards your tech devices.'
My initial feelings toward this are of amazement and jealousy, 'Why didn't I think of that?!'. The concept behind it receives 5 gold stars from me. The girl in the image below looks almost as if her heart has been ripped out and that she can't straight, like it has been ejected from her body. There is an unusual contrast between the humanity of a polaroid photo and an inhuman warning send by your computer when something is wrong. However, it has also led me to consider if Victoria has questioned the humanity of laptops and smartphones, as if they have feelings too?
The series of photographs are full of rawness and emotion as they reflect wonderfully the different stages of emotion which the human heart goes through. The images are able to convey pain and emptiness alone, but excel when loading bars are added as if the heart can be digitally emptied all at once, like the trash bin on your laptop. However, I feel that there has been a certain amount of irony within this piece as the human heart never forgets and can never be emptied by the push of a button - and it is important that we all remember that. I also question whether this indirect jab at the state of our relationships in the 21st Century, and how easy it is to fall out of love with someone, just by un-friending them on Facebook. When did love become some digital?
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