Independent Project

Thinking about what I wanted to do for this project. Have decided to stay with the same concept but finding new ways of expressing myself. This process have proven quite cathartic and will probably be good for to get this out of my system   ......  or  not...... maybe it is just the beginning of something by way of protest or political art. I have enjoyed the collage medium and collage is one of the subjects in theory we are covering over summer. It has melded quite well.

Idea 1 Slideshow....maybe silent.... of refugess with faces removed. Silent rotation of lots of images. Thinking about the 353 people who died on the SIEV X and the memorial that is at Christmas Island. Nameless people with no face. The other thought I had was to replace their face with that of John Howard, placing him in their situation.

Idea 2 "Keeping the Lid On".....The idea is to have the same faceless images of refugees ( or with John Howard superimposed again over the face ) and to place the images in a box which has a lid on top sealed tightly. The lid is painted to be a replica of the deck of a boat, natural timber with the black tar stripe through it. This very much the idea based on how Howard managed to "keep the lid on this issue" until after the election.