Having previously explored ways of expressing human connection I became interested in the green dot used on Facebook to show that someone is online as a symbol of connection or connectedness. When people who are important to me are online I find myself feeling comforted by the presence of that little green dot even if we are not actually communicating. It is as if the green dot takes on its own companionable presence while symbolising a passive connection with an absent person.

. I wanted to bring the green dot in to the physical world; to give it a tangible presence to embody the feeling of connectedness. The digital dot is 2D so I began with acrylic paintings on lining paper.

The paintings developed from the way I see the dot. Although the dot is a flat green, my eyes perceive a lighter colour around the edge so I tried to express this in the paintings to give the dot more character and depth in 2D. I painted it large on the paper to give the object more of a presence and to make the body appear singular I experimented with textures and colour in the back ground.

. There is a lot of potential in 3D to make this abstract idea a tangible presence. An idea of the mobile app being akin to a modern omnipresent connection, like amulets connecting wearers to abstract gods, leads to wearable representations of connection which I would liketo develop with this concept.