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Carmi Tronci-Bell | Godhead


Godhead is an ongoing interactive webcomic that Tronci-Bell began after the 2016 election. The narrative centers on a girl genius named Walnut, enslaved in a historical United States where slavery is still legal. The story follows Walnut as she develops an unlikely friendship with a celestial god, the titular Godhead, who lands on earth and begins to interact with inhabitants via a computer monitor. Once Godhead meets Walnut, they start working together to build a flying machine so that Walnut can escape, both the plantation on which she is enslaved and the Earth itself. Through this story, Tronci-Bell seeks to humanize the people who are enslaved in Godhead, inviting readers to relate to them, and reconsider the fairness of many oppressive systems. Godhead is a fundamentally pro-independent web project that was made as a challenge to the corporatization of the Internet over the past twenty years. In the context of a web whose function it is to sell products (including our attention), Godhead is a form of protest, filling the Internet with functionally useless pages that glitch or exist just for fun. As readers encounter scenes that scroll backwards, read upside down or playfully crash browsers, Godhead asks us to sit with the discomfort of not knowing, the frustration of being unable to fully understand and the joy of experiencing beauty amidst uncertainty.

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