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Environment - Exploring digital collage


I wanted to start experimenting with digital collage for my unit exploring materials. As i said in my last blog post i wanted to work digitally as i feel it would work better with my theme of social media environment. I started by thinking about all the things we use social media for, the first thing that came to my mind was Instagram and how a lot of people are presenting themselves very sexually. Here are a few examples of what i found. 
















I also looked at some celebrity instagram images to see what kind of stuff they are posting, and what they are thinking is accepable 












I wanted to run with this idea. A lot of people use there sex appeal to gain followers, get likes and i guess by doing this, they feel a sense of accomplishment. Sex sells. We all know this. 

Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment either as money, goods, services, or some other benefit agreed upon by the transacting parties.

Human sexual activity, human sexual practice or human sexual behaviour is the manner in which humans experience and express their sexuality. 

just saying. 


So i decided to start by making digital collages responding to this idea. Perhaps over exaggerating it. Making it more in your face, and more graphic. 






Once i started making these, people around me got a bit uncomfortable with it... and i felt pretty discouraged.  
But then i thought, fuck that. I should make it worse. Make them feel more uncomfortable, because that is how i feel when i look at these images on social media. i feel uncomfortable. i don't wanna see it. But i do. So that is my plan over the October break.

I then wanted to start looking at colour and composition... just playing around.



I wanted to think about how I can communicate a message with imagery alone... what am I trying to say? and how can I say it without words...








I actually found it hard to think of ideas and then change it into a visual words in the form of a collage.... But I thought about it, the idea of your brain, and social media, being intelligent, a bright thinker, with so much information at the tip of your fingers... being able to vent online to everyone, share your opinion and views. And the balance of it all.



How we set the standards for the children yet we judge for there lifestyle. The things we have given them and shown them how to use. We showed them that sex sells, we showed them how to find out anything they want to know through google. We gave them the celebrities to idolize. We gave them the platforms to present themselves to everyone. We taught them everything and let them run with it. And we judge them for it.




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  1. Artmatters6 October 2017 at 06:31

    Tightrope walker + confessional box
    = Great imagery!

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