Tag: CAP1

For the second day of our week long project “The Day Today”, I read an article regarding obesity in children of around the ages four and five. In the article, many parents blamed the “Buy One Get One Free” deals that are popular in Uk supermarkets. Most of these deals are associated with unhealthy foods like crisps, chocolate, ect. The first thing that caught my eye was the shapes of the unhealthy snacks. I started to simplify them and colour them in frequent used colours in snack packaging. By overlapping, I was hoping to recreate the amount of deals you see in supermarkets, however I liked the outline shape that the shapes made. With only then focusing on what the outline was and then colouring them I feel the final shapes reminded me of jigsaw pieces. With this project I experimented more, rather than focusing too much on having a final pice, which I feel helped me develop my ideas more. I would have liked to further go on and look into logos and how we see them as shapes. I feel this turned successful and I could further develop this into an interesting piece.

For the project “The Day Today” we must create a piece of any media in response to an article that catches our eye in the local newspaper. The article that caught my eye was about trophy hunting in Africa and how British families go on holiday and hunt monkeys. I wanted to create a 3D piece that has contrasting shapes so the piece has an uncomfortable feel, like something is not right. This is the feeling I felt when seeing the article imagine of a man holding a dead monkey. What caught my eye was the opposites of man made object being the gun and the natural world being the money.I started with making paper cones to try and replicate fangs. By tightly rolling cylinder shapes with newspapers to make a similar shape like a gun. Having the cylinders going through the cones it represents the guns killing the animal. I then experimented with different types of paper that can hold more shape. The string is to show the connection that humans and monkeys have with having 90% similar DNA. I further on went to try with different textures by layering paint. The final outcome itself was not successful, however I feel the experimenting went well and I feel I should have developed more than rather focus on having a final piece.