Reflections on NM4210
18 years ago
The New World Order- Technique used: photo montage + photoshop layer alteration
The montage is made up of 4 photos. The female character, the piler alike tool, skyscrapers, sun. They crop, altered (using eraser, blur, smudge, liquidify, layer type alteration, healing tools etc.)
- Expression: As mentioned in prototype 1, the concept of 'urban' (be it fantasy or phenomenon) is all about capitalism. And through this ideology the rich get richer while the poor will seemingly get poorer because they were unable to catch up with the rich. And by the term rich, it's not just in economic terms but in terms of power to exercise control over the rest of the people. I always believe that one day I will find out that the whole world is eventually controlled by ONE person. As I grow older and get to learn more things, I realised that huge conglomerates are affiliated, which thus led me to believe in the conspiracy theory of New World Order. Another belief I have was that the world was originally a matriarchal world but the men managed to snatch it from the women and to keep themselves in power, they oppress the women.
Thus, in the photomontage, the female is removed of all her important senses i.e. hearing and sight, to present a sense of helplessness. Other than being able to breathe, the only thing she owns is her mouth. But it is being control by the power, which is represented by the pilers that force open her mouth. And the skycrapers in her mouth symbolises urbanization. So in this sense, urbanization is a kind of forced development that is controlled by the power to maintain/gain more power.
Initially, I wanted to add cranes/construction work on the character's hair. But it was too tough to photoshop the cranes nicely. So they were removed. Other than that, the eyes of the protagonist were in tact, but I felt that the sense of oppressiveness and surrealism is not strong enough. So i removed the eyes and the brows that hints of facial expressions to objectify and distort the human body parts.
Class Critique:
- Disturbing but not morbid enough
- Doesn't really show helplessness
- Suggestions:
The montage is made up of 4 photos. The female character, the piler alike tool, skyscrapers, sun. They crop, altered (using eraser, blur, smudge, liquidify, layer type alteration, healing tools etc.)
- Expression: As mentioned in prototype 1, the concept of 'urban' (be it fantasy or phenomenon) is all about capitalism. And through this ideology the rich get richer while the poor will seemingly get poorer because they were unable to catch up with the rich. And by the term rich, it's not just in economic terms but in terms of power to exercise control over the rest of the people. I always believe that one day I will find out that the whole world is eventually controlled by ONE person. As I grow older and get to learn more things, I realised that huge conglomerates are affiliated, which thus led me to believe in the conspiracy theory of New World Order. Another belief I have was that the world was originally a matriarchal world but the men managed to snatch it from the women and to keep themselves in power, they oppress the women.
Thus, in the photomontage, the female is removed of all her important senses i.e. hearing and sight, to present a sense of helplessness. Other than being able to breathe, the only thing she owns is her mouth. But it is being control by the power, which is represented by the pilers that force open her mouth. And the skycrapers in her mouth symbolises urbanization. So in this sense, urbanization is a kind of forced development that is controlled by the power to maintain/gain more power.
Initially, I wanted to add cranes/construction work on the character's hair. But it was too tough to photoshop the cranes nicely. So they were removed. Other than that, the eyes of the protagonist were in tact, but I felt that the sense of oppressiveness and surrealism is not strong enough. So i removed the eyes and the brows that hints of facial expressions to objectify and distort the human body parts.
Class Critique:
- Disturbing but not morbid enough
- Doesn't really show helplessness
- Suggestions:
- make a clean cut of the eyes instead of soft blurry cut
- leave the face just dig out the eyes/erase the eyes/cover the eyes
- stick needles in her eyes
- make the lips red so that the pilers can remain in its color and be the center focus, then the eyes can have more manipulation
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