FREEDOM photo ideas for final piece

I decided that my final piece would definitely be a metaphor for censorship. I decided to base the concept on an image by Frank Miller, one I have already researched and attempted myself, due to it being very effective and dark. I am not sure whether it will be drawn or sculpted yet so I have taken pictures of myself in the concept of what I am going to do to get a rough idea.

FREEDOM fmp sketches

here I have used small board of MDF painted with primer as practice for my final piece. Originally I was going to use this but have found out from attempting it in small that pencil is not good to use on it, of which was going to be the main media. I used oil pastel to see if other media worked; it worked better but still not ideal for a final piece and quite risky 

Sketches of what general idea my final piece was headed. The ideas stem from the first sheet I did, being metaphors for being censored.

FREEDOM america

The Native American Holocaust is, in my opinion, one of the biggest disgraces to human history of all time. I feel strongly about how it is almost completely ignored in American culture and mocked by Americans today when really it should be noticed as an important example of human behavior at its worst. The slaughter of 100 million people, the biggest genocide known to man, was brought on by white settlers when "their" new land was occupied by natives. They fought wars with them, had their food source (buffalo) almost brought to extinction, were given new diseases by settlers, forced into their society and raped of their pride and culture. And now the remaining native Americans are a diluted people, a true example of how freedom can be taken completely and never found again.

This picture is meant to show emotion and feeling from this. I have tried to make it not convoluted so it focuses on the chief's face. That being said I wish that I had taken more time on the flag as it looks rushed, or moved the face to the center. I drew it in pencil without colour to make it both moody and sad.It is related to censorship because it is rarely recognised in American culture today and sometimes even mocked, a form of subtle censoring

FREEDOM censorship

Being the first A2 sheet I produced and image I looked at, this is the basis for all my project. I wanted to look at censorship and freedom of speech from the start, but after I researched it and found this picture, it immediately had effect on me and made me realize that creating a metaphor for censorship was what I wanted to do. Here I have recreated the original image by Frank Miller the best I can, using ink and coloured ink like in the original. I feel I have achieved a number of similarities to the original drawing in the plasters and body of the woman. The hands however are distracting due to the strokes of the felt tip that I used. The background is also a different black to the ink used on the main figures. In hindsight then, I could have tested the media used before using it to determine whether it was adequate. 

Freedom exhibition

Here are some photos taken at the freedom / protest exhibition at the civic. I have taken the pieces I find most interesting to me and the ones I feel might inspire me in the freedom project. My favourite is the 5th one down due its likeness to 1940s propaganda.

cardboard city - Jonathan Borofski

Jordan Borofski is an American sculptor and painter. As a child he accompanied his mother, a trained architect, to weekly painting classes, where he was encouraged to draw freely and not in a traditional manner. He studied at Yale School of Art and Architecture, where his work was mainly sculptural. From the early 1970  s his central concern was to diminish the boundaries between life and art. From 1973 he made use of dreams, in drawings, paintings, sculptures, projected images, prints, and finally combinations of these in multi-media installations.


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cardboard city - Zoetrope

I cannot find any footage of my zoetrope in action, although I do have some photos. The basic premise of my zoetrope was to create an animation that occurred when it was spun by placing a string of pictures on a long piece of paper inside. I drew someone being shot and it worked quite well in the final outcome.

The Zoetrope is an an animated vintage toy that was originally developed in 1830 s. The Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell improved Horner’s original design in 1868 by introducing concave lenses to the slits, eliminating distortion. Although patents for Zoetrope-like devices were registered in numerous countries from 1867, William F. Lincoln actually patented the name Zoetrope, in 1887, in the United States. In England, the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company sold a number of Wheel of Life or Zoetrope models.