For this piece the initial idea was that I wanted to make a comment on plastic surgery and how its become so common that people have it. Also wanted to say how there’s this obsession with plastic surgery to always go bigger. I showcased that by selecting certain places on her face and enlarging them and adding a difference colour to make that difference clear.
45 Minutes
The topic of this piece is very personal to me and that why I chose to make a piece on it. The topic of racism & cultural appropriation make feel two main feelings which are confusion and anger. So the theme of this piece is the latter emotion. The reason for this topic to be so confusing to me is because of how theres different opinions what cultural appropriation actual is and what people can “take”. Obviously it has become more deluded because of celebrities overtime are making a norm to use influences from other cultures but claim they did it first.
The piece is a reference to when a undergraduate for her final show decided to make the models wear an over exaggerated version of blackface and one of the black models refused to wear the pieces and recalled one of the members of staff telling her “It was fine to fell uncomfortable for 45 minutes. So decided to make the models the main vocal point and have the text surrounding them. I wanted to be clear you get what I’m staying instantly with this piece.
Cam Girl
For this project, most of my pieces have no connection with my essay and I wanted to somehow bring my essay topic back into my physical work.
How I came across this topic was that Becky put a link to this website that shows a range of videos in different genres. I went on and searched, social media and the internet and came across this series called Dark Web that looked at different aspects of the internet in a more gritty, realistic way. One of the videos in that series was a bout cam girls and the unknown fear of not knowing who’s watching them. I used a layout, that replicates a pop ads and I replaced them with images from the series.
Disconnect
Following the themes of Cam Girl, this piece is a commentary on how people are so connected but most people look at it, that people today are more distant than ever. With the globe icon it’s the most recognisable image that link with connection or old school internet logo.
Aisha Beya 