The story of creation of my comics started from the idea to base it on my own Instagram stories and to relate it somehow to the topic of social networks, how it changes our communication habits and touches upon other spheres of our lives. I am personally not super active Instagram user, but I love to post stories. That's why I though it would be interesting to base the comics on the stories I have posted. I looked up at them and realized that I had a lot of nigh images, videos of lights and not that much of me there. That's when the idea about light came to my mind.
From conceptual point of view, I decided to dwell on the idea of privacy of our online identities. Social network profiles are used as tools for identification and construction of identity. It is paradoxical that there can be any amount of privacy in the public account. However, it is truth: we are able to regulate the level of accessibility of others into your life, show merely the sides of our lives that we want to show, and still remain in the shadow. Consequently, balancing on the edge between real and virtual lives becomes a kind of advantageous skill to acquire.
A couple of words about the comic hero I used as an inspiration - Jessica Jones. She is from Marvel Universe and is somehow connected to the story of Spider-man. What I like about her is that she is very real, even though she has a power of being super-strong and can kick any bad-ass easily. She has been through a lot, but preserved a good heart and humanity in spite of her powers. She is also an image of feminist representation of a women character, without over-exaggeration.
The comic hero I created is also a girl in a city. She lives her life socially, but undercover. The thing is that no one ever saw her out in the day light, because she never was. There is nothing mysterious or tragic that prevents her to expose herself to the daylight, it is just the way she is. Fortunately, she leads quite normal after-dark existence. Her passion, hobby and job is a collector of rare lights, which is the most suitable type of activity for her lifestyle. However, she doesn’t like the word ‘collector’ and says that it sounds dry as if it excludes the emotional side of the process. When she gets out to hunt, she meets many other night owls, some of them are her regular companions, some of them are just one-night guests. Everybody is glad to see her around, even though her face has an unusual ability to elude from one’s memory quite quickly. This is the weirdest part about that person - she is famous, but unseen. Her personal Instagram page has around 5k followers, that almost never saw her face...Though everyone knows her name is Day.
Her day starts normally at 8 pm. Even though it is a reversed schedule, she fills pretty comfortable with it and tries to keep to a typical day routine. She makes herself a nice vegan bowl around 9. It is followed by a cup of coffee with rich amount of coconut cream and listens to Day lives in the studio flat, partially brick-lined, partially white. Probably there is no another person who loves white color as much as this person. And no other person has ever owned that many white pillows. A remarkable feature of her studio flat - a small closet, which is always closed. At least nobody ever witnessed Day opening it and nobody ever dared to do this without permission. A short while ago the door of the closet acquired a middle-sized, silver padlock that looks quite old, but is perfectly shiny regardless.
The story of how the locker appeared is trivial, but important is one would like to know what is actually stored in this closet. Of all her possessions, Day has only one think of black colour, not exactly the thing, not exactly she has. So it is/was a Shadow - her cat. Shadow is the one, the one who knows what's in the closet since that summer day when a fat black fly flew into the flat. Driven either by a desire to be the only black spot in the place, or his predator instincts, Shadow started his wild hunt. After a while, being very excited with the process, the cat saw a fly landed on the door handle of the closet. At the next moment he jumped over it, the door opened slightly and...the fly was caught, yes. The only thing is that Day was looking for the Shadow for quite a long time, until she realized that some of her brightest lights was missing. It leaked through the small gap in the doorway...Now she realized - she is probably the only owner of an overexposed cat. Shadow, if it's relevant to call him like that now, was the same perfectly white colour - not single black dot, including the eyes - that the rest of the flat. Day was surprised about the cat, frustrated about the lost light, as she already found a person to sell it to, but also saw new possibilities. It was a while since she decided to make a Shadow his personal Instagram page. Now it would be just a blast she said: a first, the one and the only page of an over-saturated cat! 'A perfect pet page for a girl with a face-less Instagram page',- she thought and opened the window to let some moonlight in.
#daysday #lightsarelove #thebrightestlight #shinebright
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