Avatar Saat by bob schroeder

The digital drawing depicts a generic internet avatar with a selection of pills and tablets in various shapes and colours, with a patch of wild plants—featuring leaves, flowers and blossoms—thriving on its forehead. The surreal-looking graphic has a minimalist design, with the more detailed plants contrasting with the emphasised simplicity of the head’s silhouette. The illustration makes do with the colours lilac, violet and various shades of blue. The effect of the image is sober and detached, verging on cheerful.

'Wo bin ich hier eigentlich', mulmte Herb unvermittelt, und seine unwirkliche Artikulation wirkte wie aus einem anderen, mir fremden Raum. 'Bitte vergessen Sie bei dieser Witterung nicht, mir ein Schälchen mit überlebensnotwendigen Medikamenten auf ihr Fenstersims zu stellen' , he added, pushing out each vowel like hideous pieces of leek in a packet soup, and reached purposefully with his right hand into the dimly lit void before coming to a halt, staggering, against the east wall, cooling his forehead against the sweaty pane of the window, blind to the night.
I nodded uneasily and imagined a world in which, as soon as one reached the age of majority, one was allowed to dive, float and sink in a seemingly endless pool filled not with colourful balls but with pills and tablets of every conceivable shape and colour. Who decided on need and necessity in our society? Had it been up to the mechanical widows, the right to hope and relief would have been measured by the number of robotic suction minions one could competently operate, which in turn would have benefited only that self-centred, dominant minority.