Avatar Resilience by bob schroeder

The digital drawing shows an avatar from the internet with a smiling mouth superimposed in the style of a collage and an upward-looking, superimposed blue eye with dark eyelashes. The mouth and eye appear to have been cut out of a foreign illustration and inserted arbitrarily. The graphic is minimalistic and uses only the colours purple, violet, blue and black. The mood of the image is cool yet cheerful. The mouth and eye are detailed and contrast with the restrained, comic-like silhouette of the avatar's head. 'Lärmwaffen an sich', sinnierte Herb im Hinblick auf die gellende Beschallung durch die mechanischen Witwen vom anderen Ende der elenden Stadt, 'Lärmwaffen sind nurmehr eine weitere Eskalation totalitaristischer Gestaltungsfreude eines vermeintlichen oder tatsächlichen hingenommenen Gegners. Was ist Lärm? Zumeist die erfahrene Konsequenz juveniler Sozialisation.' He clicked knowingly and pulled the blueing Polaroid from the past century out of his greasy breast pocket again. It showed him and his people, equipped with wooden ratchets and early Asian microcomputers, as they, a group with a bad reputation, threw competing streets into turmoil and terror with their rhythmic beeping. I nodded numbly and wished myself into a world where a questioning chirp was the most monstrous of all possible threats.