Tuesday, 3 March 2009

Research

Laurie Simmons


Taj Mahal - 1984

Simmons uses plastic figures in this image to suggest the roles that were encouraged by the emerging consumer society that dominated her own childhood.

Alex Fleming

Safe European Homes - 2009

I made this montage to demonstrate the type of thing I am looking to produce. It pictures tourists at a gateway in Morocco. The images through the gateway are taken from a magazine article looking at the levels of violence and poverty in Africa.

Marx - 2009

This image of Marx was produced by freezing a black and white ink jet print. The water brings out the coloured inks. The idea was to link the serving up of political opinion with the serving up of frozen dinners.

Xray Specs

I know I am artificial

But don't put the blame on me

I was reared with appliances

In a consumer Society

I wanna be Instamatic

I wanna be a frozen pea

I wanna be dehydrated

In a consumer society

Art - I - Ficial by Xray-Specs


2 comments:

Su Ansell said...

Ah! takes me back - I had a bit of an epiphany when I first heard 'Oh Bondage..' at a party as a teenager!

Su Ansell said...

I picked up some leaflets containing very powerful images from the Palestinian Society, who had a stall outside the campus centre last week. I can put them in my pigeonhole & you are welcome to look at them/photocopy them in relation to this project if you wish.