Statement

The made-up word "Pokézombie" refer to people so intent on playing Pokémon Go, that they forget about the real world and get in the way of other people or get hurt stumbling around fixated on their screen. [1] Rather than discussing this incident as a right or wrong problem, I'm going to let people who see my project decide by themselves how they want to interpret this art piece. My goal is to put forward my feeling that people have been focusing on this game too much that they sometimes see other people as "Pokémon Go players" instead of who they should talk to to know more about. I am a player myself, so I feel the need to look at this same phenomenon from different angles and try to listen to what non-players have to say. From my personal experience, at first it was a good thing that suddenly everyone around the world has a common interest; strangers greet each other on the street just because they are all playing. But now that the fever has cooled down a lot, I started to think that being a Pokézombie is sad and a bit ironic.