One Stupid Tweet
Photo Illustration by Andrew B. Myers. Prop stylist: Sonia Rentsch.
After reading the article, this picture stood out the most to me, as it did with many other readers, I imagine. The whole theme I gathered from the article was that someone was being singled-out by society for expressing an inappropriate comment. In my opinion, this is something that happens far more than we let on. Anyway, the world suddenly turned its back against this one woman and she was alone and seemingly segregated from everyone else. One single Twitter comment caused a gigantic uproar and she was cast aside as being a ‘racist’ bully. This picture represents the idea of being shunned by portraying one bird being ostracized by dozens of others. It’s ironic that the dark theme of segregation is in stark contrast with the bright colours of this illustration, something I found visually interesting. Personally, I think darker colours would have made the message more powerful, but perhaps the bright colours represent hope for Justine? Justine was more or less able to get her life back together again. Maybe not in the way she had hoped, but it is stable nonetheless. The style is very simple, being that the blue birds represent the Twitter symbol, and also represent people; the single bird is Justine, and every other bird is society reacting to her words. All in all, I think the simplicity of the illustration adds an interesting perspective to this article in that we don’t get caught up in the details of the visual. Rather we take the words and match them to the pictures and come up with the themes found within. The simplicity works, because it doesn’t take away from the article. On the other hand, the bright colours, in my opinion, distract the reader. I found this article to be very depressing and these colours just don’t match that impression.








