A.
one of the 7 images you found (for Part I)
1980s hooded sweatshirt Lent by Champion| Items: Is Fashion Modern?|MoMA exhibition
What-if questions from partner:
- What if it’s a painting or illustration?
- What if it’s neon green?
- What if you see your favourite celebrity wearing this?
B.
one new image that further refining my research
Disparities – The Collection: 10.5″ x 12.5″-John Dingler
This painting is one of the ten paintings of disparities that John Dingler created. I choose this piece because I think it represent my theme class. John Dingler uses various colors and composition to convey the huge gap between rich and poor in his work.
John Dingler says:
“It seemed very natural to reduce inequality in politics and in quotidian society, so these fabulous works thrust into the world what I think are the ten most significant disparities what, once eliminated by means the passage of the 28th Amendment to the US Constitution to prohibit private wealth, replacing it with public financing, in political champaigns and in lobbying, these disparities should shrink to a manageable level,”
(http://www.johndinglerart.com/disparities.html).
What-if questions from partner:
- What if the work is in gif format?
- What if you see this image on a billboard?
- What if the theme color is not blue?
My what-if questions:
- What if it has some substantive parts in the painting?
- What if the colors in the painting have some meanings?
- What if it is in a different form than painting?
I got inspired by my partner’s what-if question: What if the theme color is not blue? I think the artist uses blue circles to represent properties, so the rich people side has way more circles and has more textures than the poor/common people side in the painting. I want to view the difference between classes from a different perspective. Other than wealth and properties, poor/common people has many other things going on in their lives. So I use geometric forms other than circle and colors other than blue to represent other things in poor/common people’s side. I also use some forms to overlap the line between two sides to represent the interaction between classes. And I made the poor/common people side orange to form a contrast to the rich side.
Then I add some items that represents different classes and some items shared between classes into the collage.
In the end, I add two pieces of plastic paper(one blue one yellow) on the printed-out collage to show how the disparities and interactions between classes exit at the same time.
Revise:
Reflection questions:
- What changes did you make in your final revision of bridge 1?
I delete some geometric shapes and add some words and phrases I found that represents the common features between classes during the research process to the diagonal line which represents the divide of classes.
- How did the changes you make improve the artwork?
At the original version, I found that I don’t have a specific part to focus on. So in the later on researching process, I focused on one point that I have interests in — classes equality — and did some researches and showed in the revised version. So I think that’s the improvement of this revision.
- What additional research did you do to make the final revision? Please include links to websites and any research you conducted.
My theme is class and I want to focus on the common features between poverty/normal people class and rich class. When I’m doing researches, I feel like the most common features shared between classes are some unpractical things, such as information, education, human rights, dignity, etc. … So I use text to represent that.
https://newint.org/features/1999/03/01/poor-rich-the-facts
