For this project, I initially wrote down the ideas about
ethnicity and religion for the research portion, and I found that I was coming
up a little short on material. My family
and I do not really have any distinct ethnic identity or religious affiliation.
I kept thinking about how I might have been discriminated against, but I
couldn’t think of anything more drastic than of instances of high school
bullying, which were meager at best. I wasn’t coming up with much material
based on those ideas. So it got me thinking about identity in general.
That lead me to thinking about how it is hard to formulate
an identity without being bombarded by outside sources telling you what it
should be, and how to act. I was thinking along the lines of a poster that had
the theme of “Be Yourself” but I didn’t
want to be overly clichéd. I came up with what I thought the outside was
telling me to be, and that we shouldn’t be just because of what everyone else
are telling you.
I chose to make this poster in a deconstructive style,
boarding on geometric as well. The type is legible, but it is distorted.
However, there are many layers of images working here as well. I almost wanted
it to seem like an advertisement, that is why I chose the sanserif font, but
one that was broken down. I hope it gets
my ideas across. This was a difficult project for me because I kept coming up
with several ideas, but they were all only about half formed based on identity.
This is my final result and I think it reflects my thoughts on the subject at
hand.
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