For this post, I want to do an elaborate post about my choice of theme– Gender. I choose the photo named “Walking House” by Laurie Simmons as my inspiration to explore and elaborate on my theme– Gender from my Bridge 1 Part I post. I form three ‘What if’ questions to help myself to create a new artwork that backs up the same theme as my choice of photo.
Photograph. “Walking House”
Laurie Simmons 1989
Question 1:
What if the character were in a different setting?
Question 2:
What if the narrative change?
Question 3:
What if the image were in color?
This piece of my photoshop image is inspired by the photograph named “Walking House” by Laurie Simmons. For my theme, I want to I want to emphasize the importance of women and how much they have been done for their families. As we all know Wall Streets is the world’s top financial street full of mostly male white collar. I used a photo of Wall Street as my background to signify the inequality within this place. Another signifier is the pottery that symbolized the Eastern culture; where inequalities between male and female happen very commonly. The black shadow professional women inside the pottery is another signifier that shows the females are also able to be a professional instead of just doing housework and be a housewife. At last, the vacuum cleaner, the vegetables, the rag are signifying how society expects females to relate with.
If I were to put artwork to be in the outside of the Visual Culture, I would like to place it on the streets around wall streets and also in different high schools. This way my artwork would act as a poster to let more people see the inequalities between males and females. I would also like to place this poster all around the undeveloped cities. It is more common that people from the undeveloped cities believed that females’ duties are to stay home and taking care of the family and kids.
From making this project, I learned that it is very creative to inspire by an original image to create another new image with the same theme. Putting different content into the image but expressing the same ideas is very challenging but inspiring at the same time. Originally, I decided to use PhotoShop to draw out the image instead of cropping out images from different photos to create my image. But after I draw all the content on and used the ‘Wall Street’ photo as the background, it did not come out very well. Using the drawing on the top of the Wall Street photo seems not strong enough to show my intention. So I tried to use the different cropping images to create the image and came out better in comparison to the previous one. What I learn from this content by changing the drawing to images make the background and the forward image merge together better.
