Assignment 4 October 27, 2008
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Here is my first draft for assignment one before capturing some photo for my assignment 4, I brainstormed for some ideas on urban phenomena and come out with the theme:Technology with some futuristic elements and the consequences. As technology advances, human beings become more reliant. Physical interaction diminishes as online shopping causes human being to stay indoor. Hence, I wanted to portray the above idea in my art piece. From the art piece, a young lady was portrayed as a statue that symbolizes the consequences of technology advancement. Thinking that we have created marvelous technology to aid life, human actually take it for granted and end up being engulfed by technology and ultimately become a useless piece of statue without any thoughts. At the background, you are able to see the diminishing industrial buildings as well as the commercial building due to the fact that human are able to do anything from home and there isn’t a need to have such a place. The bars of the windows further emphasizes the jailing of oneself at home. The flying cars and the borderless train symbolize the futurism of the world. Transportation would be easily accessible but human being do not really need it as fully bounded with their borderless internet.
Here are some of the photos used in the development process for my first draft:
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Continuing with the idea of futurism, my idea shifted a little from the technology advancement that changes us, to the nature alteration of what the world would become in the future and global warming came into my mind. Ozone layer is thinning due to many human activities and the temperature of the earth is increasing. As a result of that, the earth would ultimately be destroyed under our own hands in the future if we still do not make any effort in saving the environment now. We hold a great responsibility of what the environment would become, and what global warming would do to the earth in the future and that intrigues me of having the idea of showing the earth being destroyed under our own hand due to global warming. The surrealistic piece of work was created by selecting a range of warm tone of colours.
Here are some of the photos used in the development process for my first draft:
(Click on the image to view the higher resolution version)
