Mobiography Awards 2021: Digital Art

Digital Art Category Winner

Puzzle

By M. Cecilia São Thiago

Judges Comments About ‘Puzzle’

“I’ve been watching and participating regularly in the fascinating emergence of mobile digital art for 14 years. With tools in our hands that allow us to merge things we observe directly with our feeling and imaginative responses to what we see, mobile artists are, indeed, developing a new way to communicate our human experience with pictures.

There were so many deeply engaging images submitted for these first Mobiography Awards! Many different approaches to the medium. Many different subjects and styles.

“Puzzle” grabbed me both in the heart and the head for its masterful blending of line work and photographic detail. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it new imperatives for reinvention of self, family and friendships, and work and community relationships, all within gut-wrenching restraints.

“Puzzle” portrays the complexity of the human experience during these chaotic times in a way that captures both the restraints and the vital energies of reinvention they are stimulating. The paradox is, indeed, a puzzle for human beings around the globe. “

Meri Aaron Walker