For this three weeks, I decided to give a go at the idea of insulting the audience in order to elicit an angry response. The piece above was my attempt at doing such a thing. I also can't forget to mention that this was a collaboration with Alex Turner.
This piece took about eight hours of photoshop on my part (and about two from Alex). This project renewed my interest in photoshop, and I have been experimenting with it ever since. In the future, I definitely want to use photoshop as a medium.
The main idea with this piece was that girls who wear revealing clothing are idiots. It's a harsh statement that leaves a lot of room for argument. The problem is that my message is not easily interpreted, and the word 'Idiotic' is not harsh enough. A more offensive word would most likely have done the trick.
Even more than that, my audience did not consider the bikini in the photo to be revealing. I find this extremely interesting, because (to me) bikinis are the epitome of revealing-clothing-gone-unnoticed. Bikinis cover the same amount of space as undergarments, yet are totally normal to wear in public.
In the end, my audience did not get angry with me. Rather, we had a big discussion on our society and what it considers revealing. One girl said, "This is so weird to me. As a little kid, my mom would put me in a bikini and we'd go to the pool, and it was completely normal." Bringing a new perspective to my peers made me very happy.
I've learned that in order to elicit an angry response, you have to hit close to home in a harsh way. Because opportunities to do that kind of a thing are hard to come by, I don't think my future works will be based off of the idea.
I want to make my next couple of pieces about things I research, like I did with my summer works. On top of that, I want to incorporate art history. I want every element of my next piece to have a meaning, and I want the meanings to tie up and create one whole idea. I think work like that will be much stronger.
This piece took about eight hours of photoshop on my part (and about two from Alex). This project renewed my interest in photoshop, and I have been experimenting with it ever since. In the future, I definitely want to use photoshop as a medium.
The main idea with this piece was that girls who wear revealing clothing are idiots. It's a harsh statement that leaves a lot of room for argument. The problem is that my message is not easily interpreted, and the word 'Idiotic' is not harsh enough. A more offensive word would most likely have done the trick.
Even more than that, my audience did not consider the bikini in the photo to be revealing. I find this extremely interesting, because (to me) bikinis are the epitome of revealing-clothing-gone-unnoticed. Bikinis cover the same amount of space as undergarments, yet are totally normal to wear in public.
In the end, my audience did not get angry with me. Rather, we had a big discussion on our society and what it considers revealing. One girl said, "This is so weird to me. As a little kid, my mom would put me in a bikini and we'd go to the pool, and it was completely normal." Bringing a new perspective to my peers made me very happy.
I've learned that in order to elicit an angry response, you have to hit close to home in a harsh way. Because opportunities to do that kind of a thing are hard to come by, I don't think my future works will be based off of the idea.
I want to make my next couple of pieces about things I research, like I did with my summer works. On top of that, I want to incorporate art history. I want every element of my next piece to have a meaning, and I want the meanings to tie up and create one whole idea. I think work like that will be much stronger.