Week 5

Assignment: (Have 25 pictures for our idea)

Our assignment for the upcoming weeks was to think of an idea that we felt passionate about. The idea was suppose to be about a serious topic and was suppose to be clearly noticeable in our Art. Using the pictures that we took we were suppose to make a Photoshop mash up of our idea. That’s where our 25 pictures come into play and the reason we need them.

 

Craft: (How did I do it?)

For this assignment we were asked to pick an idea or topic that we feel strong about. This idea/topic was suppose to be some what controversial and when I started to think about controversial topics, two things came to mind that I feel strong about not having abortions and suicide.  I decided to go with suicide because I thought of an idea of something I could make. I choose this topic because when growing up I had two friends who had family members commit suicide. Seeing how much this hurt the people surrounding the victim was very hard to watch.  Also, you see so much about suicide on the news and television that it’s just a reminder to everyone that there are people out there who need help. To help with my artwork I asked my roommate and fellow classmate to be my model. I took a lot of pictures of him, him looking into a mirror, and of him holding pills. I have posted some of the pictures I took above.

 

Composition: (Arrangement of the elements)

This is the most important part, for this project. We need to make our message clear so that our viewers can easily understand what were trying to say. I have decided to arrange multiple pictures into one picture, using Photoshop. I plan on having a person in the middle of the picture who is kind of a shadowy figure and then have two mirrors in front of him (one on his left and right). Each mirror will have a reflection of the person who is the shadowy figure. One mirror will be of the person disturbed/sad/confused/contemplating something and other one will have be the body of the person, but with multiple pictures making up his face (the multiple pictures will be parts of other people’s faces to make one face).

 

Concept: (What am I trying to say?)

 Now, this is the hardest part of art for me. I’m not trying to offend anyone in this piece but from my personal opinion suicide is wrong. I think there are many ways to get help and to forget whatever it is you are upset about. When I read some of the suicide stories I just feel like these situations are every day life situations that people blow out of proportion.  I think that by committing suicide you are still hiding from your problems and allowing them to win. From watching the two family’s deal with their suicides it just doesn’t seem right. The person who committed suicide does not have to deal with the pain of losing someone everyday like their family members do. I’m not saying every situation is the same and can be resolved. I’m just trying to say with this art that there are two sides of the story (the two mirrors). One with the person by themselves because that what they feel like. The other mirror being made up the person with the people they are going to hurt and who they could of gone to for help. Then there is the person in the middle who is looking at both of these mirrors confused with what they want to do.