SCROLLDOM is a short animated loop that depicts a tunnel-like state brought on by endless content consumption, and the gaps created in the act.

“Doom scrolling” is “to spend excessive time online scrolling through news or other content that makes one feel sad, anxious, or angry etc.” (Merriam-Webster)

My version of this, as depicted through motifs of graphite coral and pale white Vejigante, brings up diasporic themes of distance: I engage with content about Puerto Rico’s island culture, but still so removed as a New Englander. While I have my own cultural fusions and communities here, social media bombards me with images that I feel I more of a longing for than direct connection to. It is easy to fall into the “scroll-hole” and come out the other end dazed, only to later repeat the cycle.The animation is a mixture of digital, hand-drawn, and stop motion techniques composited together with a montage-like single perspective.