Consumption

You aren’t hungry. You’re hollow.

A fractured human figure, cracked and worn, leans forward under the crushing weight of indulgence. Their torso is bloated, not with food, but with chaos: content, ads, likes, vices, distractions. Ghosts of fast food, screens, shopping carts, and dopamine triggers pulse through their body.

And in the hollow chest cavity, the faint shadow of a heart, a reminder of the emptiness we try to fill. The backdrop pulses with static noise and commercial debris. The silhouette matches the cracked aesthetic of the Validation piece, linking them in theme and style.

We are not consuming, we are being consumed.

“Consumption” isn’t just gluttony anymore. It’s digital, emotional, cultural. It’s binge-watching another season instead of facing ourselves. It’s scrolling for connection and buying shit to matter. We don’t eat to nourish, we feed to distract. To numb. To forget.

This piece confronts the uncomfortable truth that in the modern era, consumption is no longer a symptom. It’s a lifestyle. The more we feel unseen, the louder the hunger becomes. But it’s not for food. It’s for validation, meaning, identity. We are full and starving at the same time.

This sin is not about greed. It’s about emotional vacancy. It’s about the pain of being hollow—and the fear of sitting still long enough to feel it.

Details

Technique:

This piece began with a base illustration created in Procreate on an iPad Pro, but was built to feel raw and painfully human.

The challenge with this piece was to avoid visual overload without creating visual chaos. It needed to feel heavy, but not messy. I layered dozens of modern consumption symbols into the figure’s silhouette: fast-food wrappers, shopping boxes, social media icons, and even symbols of modern addiction. Some are legible. Some are buried. That was the point.

The cracked silhouette motif returns, symbolizing fragility behind the facade. The subtle heart shadow, a last remnant of feeling, is meant to haunt. To whisper, “You’re still in there.”

 The typography and icons were completed in Adobe Illustrator, and the poster was assembled in Adobe Photoshop.

Dimensions:
24″ x 36″

Date:
2025