Heart-Puncher is a work by Luna Buschinelli, set between the years 2024 - 2025 and set in a dystopian cyberpunk universe. At the center of the scene, a young woman finds herself in a dilapidated public bathroom - an at first glance impersonal and unhealthy space which, in a moment suspended in time, reveals itself as an intimate and paradoxically welcoming sanctuary. The walls, covered in layers of graffiti, erased messages and scattered thoughts, act as fragments of anonymous presences, traces of ephemeral encounters that echo the protagonist's own narrative.

It is in this marginal environment, where urban precariousness mixes with a kind of dirty lyricism, that the artist creates a poignant portrait of contemporary alienation and the intrinsic search for reconnection with oneself, with others, or with the environment, something that ends up happening a lot nowadays. A charging cable extends from the young woman's abdomen, connecting her body to a device - symbolizing a need that is not only mechanical, but also psychic: to recharge oneself emotionally amidst the sensory exhaustion of the hyperconnectivity that consumes us.

Inspired by the visual and narrative language of independent video games such as Undertale, Life is Strange e Milk inside a bag of milk, Luna Buschinelli composes the scene with a sensitivity that moves between the indie, the lyrical and the existential. The character isn't just the protagonist: she's also a player, an avatar, a spectator of herself - crossing and breaking the fourth wall, like someone who simultaneously inhabits the body and the interface.

In the animation, the artist invokes the track School Rooftop [Slowed Down Version] by Hisohkah, which operates with a tone similar to the hypnotic Shepard's Tone - an auditory phenomenon that creates the illusion of a note rising or falling infinitely. The effect distorts our perception of time, creating a suspended atmosphere, reinforcing the whole sensation that the character - and we with her - are caught between states, between the physical and mental worlds, between glitch and memory.

The work presents itself as a lyrical snapshot of an exhausted generation, exposing the delicacy of presence in an era saturated with stimuli.