Societal Issues in Art

This piece by Banksy is really interesting. The boy is clearly surrounded by cursors, trying to shield himself from them. He looks scared and panicked. It’s telling about how the internet can be. There is often so many things on there that we may not want to see, but they flood our timelines. Once used to escape the outside world, social media has become a place where we are flooded with news stories, ideologies and so much that we just aren’t searching for when we are looking for a break from the real world. I think Banksy is successful in showing us this world in which the internet is in…