Control
For my final project I wanted to take another crack at Dadaism. Hannah Hoch being my main inspiration. In my first pieceI made it about great black women in history and brought it together in a Hannah Hoch Style. But I don’t think i used surrealism at all in message or imagery. Not to mention how celebratory it was in comparison to “Cut with the Kitchen Knife”. So I very much wanted to get more critical. I went through a few thoughts, but ultimately I decided on the entertainment industry. The dark side of it and underlying controversy that takes place in it. I also wanted to add some drawing to connect all of it into one idea.
“For all the new visual material, it is often hard to be sure what we are seeing when we look at today's world." Page 6 How we see the World
This quote from The reading illustrates a lot of The entertainment industry is. We only see what they show us. And even what they show us can be hard to distinguish. It’s coming through a lenses of what they want us to see. So it is never clear what we are looking out. There are a lot of things that go on behind the scenes. It can also be unclear in what is true or not. We hear a lot of stories and a lot of versions of stories. There is no way to know for sure what is going on. Just what someone wants to show us.
“We only see what wee look at. To look is an act of choice. As a result of this act, what we see is brought within our reach - though not necessarily in arm's reach." page 8 Ways of seeing
At the same time we engage I what they bring sometimes even despite of what lies underneath. They catch your hearts in a way to wear we can sometimes be blinded to what is truly there. It is something that is brought close to us as if so something that we are meant to engage in.
“creating a vessel through which she viewed artistry as the absence of complexity, a vacuum through which she was led to a state of complete relaxation of mind" yono oko article
If anything my piece is showing you only a small part of the inner complexities of Hollywood. It is a very large world and there is a lot to see.
I called it control because of how everyone in it including us feels like a pawn to what controls it on the top. Which is Capitalism. As the same few companies own pretty much everything. And that is a scary thought.
And artist who inspired me a lot is Cindy Sherman. I already knew who she was before the class but what I like is how she uses contextualize stereotypes of women in her work. She isn’t really projecting more than just showing what they are and making us think about them. It is something I hope to do as a fellow under represented group in media creation.
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