Thinking about the Jack in a Box.......this is meant to be ironic as a Jack in a Box is meant to be fun, playful, surprising, a joyful toy. A plaything. The idea is that we have John Howard and his political partners playing with people's lives,,,perhaps it will be more ironic if only a smiley face jumped out, the same one on every face,............still thinking. Will play with some images and see how I go.
16 January 2009
Independent Project
Have had to reload lots of larger images to manipulate with photoshop. Have had to decide how I was going to superimpose John Howards face over the images of refugees. Should it be the same face, should it be the SMILEY face or should it be a variety of faces.
Independent Project
Have decided to go with "Keeping the Lid On" but will have to find a suitable spring to go in the box. The idea behind this is that the spring will be attached to many images concertinered so that when the lid is lifted, the images burst from the box like a "Jack in a Box". During John Howards last election victory, many of the refugees were left floating in terrible conditions at Ashmore Reef and Christmas Island until after the election. Certainly "Children Overboard" was not exposed for the lie it was until after the election also. I have appropriated many images from the internet to create new images for this project and will post them now. The quality of some may not be good enough to use for the final submission. I had googled large files but when saved have discovered they only saved as small files, new search may be required or I may have to employ a scanner and start again.
15 January 2009
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.
Artist snapshots
Practising taking snapshots of screen and then included some of artists. Interested to see if this works
Artists to follow up
Saul Bass, Paul Rand, Ikko Tanaka........thought I would follow these artists up but ran out of time. Looked at their work when I was deciding which artist presentation to do.
Printing of Narrative Project
I had my final images printed today. I first printined them small to make sure everything was aligned before embarking on 7 x A4 images. All looked really good. Had them printed at Office Works. I then ordered the A4 size and the first three printed up quite dark so persuaded the fellow, very helpful, to reprint and they were better but still a little darker. Anyway decided ( at that price) to go ahead with them. All look fine but 2 seem to not be as well aligned as they should be so will have to see if they will work for the final assessment.
12 January 2009
Narrative Project
A couple more images to add to project. This is the final selection of images ready to be professionally printed for final submission. The order the images will follow in terms of the "Barriers to Movement" will be War, Terrain, Despair/poverty,Leaky Boats, Wild Seas, Naval Patrols and Politics.
Narrative Project
I have had to redo several images. I get through the process and print out a copy and find that I have missed a step as I want all images to be uniform in size and pixelation etc. Anyway the final images in my Narrative project are as follows.
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