Some scientists think that screen addictions may result in the shortening of brain white substance.
This drawing mimics the form of a brain section, but its inner structure collapses inward—a spiral of progressive contraction. The visual metaphor is anchored in a scientific hypothesis: that prolonged exposure to screens and digital overstimulation could lead to the reduction of white matter in the brain, the very substance responsible for communication between regions.
The title is a double entendre. It evokes both the neurological phenomenon and the digital tool—URL shorteners—that reduces complexity to minimal expression, often stripping away meaning. What happens when the mind, like information, is compressed for efficiency?
The result is a distorted core, dense and frayed. A topography of decay, where cognitive capacity is thinned for the sake of immediacy.
Drawing – 30×20 cm