Bacteria - “Oh [REDACTED], Where Art Thou?”

I added this element to “Oh [REDACTED], Where Art Thou?” as a response to Covid. After living through such a world altering event and seeing how really only nature gets to play God, a visual representation of this was needed in the project where I was discussing life, death, and the beyond. I decided to depict the bacteria as a gold object to visually showcase how, when compared to something as powerful as sickness and death, gold and money become worthless. Additionally, I wanted the overall look of the bacteria, and more importantly it’s movement throughout the scene, to mimic that of a blimp. No longer used for travel, blimps have been reduced down to a means in which to show advertisements. I thought this mirrored Covid in how travel ceased and hyper-consumerism, as seen through the rise of TikTok and influencers during lockdown, took it’s place.