Fighting Zoom Fatigue
In order to make using Zoom most of the day more interesting and to help stay creative, I have created a number of images to use instead of using my photograph.
During the pandemic, like so many others, I have spent an inordinate amount of time on Zoom in meetings with my colleagues and clients. The term “Zoom fatigue” has become a real thing in the world in which we find ourselves and there are many days in which I have no interest in being in one more round of Hollywood Squares, trying not to look at myself but at the camera. But there would seem to be no end to such sessions.
In order to find some way to use my fatigue as a creative outlet, I began creating images to use when my camera is off. Most will either use just the blank screen with their name, or a photo portrait. For me, the blank screen is horribly boring, but I’m not interested in seeing myself either. So I developed images that incorporated my initials (SQH). The images shown here either have obvious representations of those three letters, or were built from distorted, repeated or scattered forms of those letters to create new designs.
This does not truly cure the affliction of Zoom fatigue, but it at least gives me something to do that associates a fun and mentally stimulating activity with the dreariness.
