Digital Story – Journey into Creativity
This digital story is about a “Creative”, or a digital media artist, in the future, named Jezebel. Since I only had a minute to work with, I had to rely on imagery, colour, archetypes, a minimized story line and the thematic power of metaphor
The story takes place in the future, where the network society has taken hold and the world’s cities are divided into districts of knowledge production. Our protagonist, Jezebel, is a Creative who has burned out and is unable to access her creativity to produce knowledge for the Internet, and this terrifies her. In order to get past the wall of despair the artist lives in without creative space, she plugs her mind into the Internet, which at this point in the future, has truly become a physical manifestation of the collective unconscious. Therein, she digs into her memory spaces for visions of nature, beauty, colour, and flow of ideas. This journey is symbolized in the story by entering a digital portal, travelling through data and ending up on a beach. Her relief is then displayed by the symbolism of water – a huge archetype across all cultures of the human family – and the magic of the creative vision is her ability to walk on it. As her journey ends in the path through the woods, or the journey back to consciousness, her mind is alive with abstract thought and colour, making her internal computer chips buzz with the electricity of creation.