The Alienation

• What is the subject of your image?
• The subject of my image is the alienation and absorption that this era has come to due to social media. Throughout this course and mostly towards the end we continued to speak about how we have become affected by the expectations of society and the loss of our identities.
• What is the content of your image?
• The content of my image is myself surrounded by random faces with an odd looking connector to an open mouth sitting on top of the faces. While the top of the picture contains a moon with a small shadow on the edge to the right and centered. While the background shows waves in a ripple effect.
• Choices for the composition:
• Moon- The idea and choice to have it in the image was the connection and meaning I personally put behind it. The moon to me shows that not even darkness can hide beauty. This does include the environment but regarding people as well and the evilness in personalities.
• Water- The water and ripple effect symbolizes the waves of opinions and words from people’s mouth. I did this in order to give more meaning and somewhat of a hint of why I had random faces
• Faces- This was meant to portray society and the movement that continues to grow with lost identities. That is also why they are all the same color and have their eyes closed.
• Me- I am in the picture because unfortunately the era of media has affected me as well. I don't think that I have lost myself but I am definitely affected by the opinions of others and am influenced by what is the “new”.
• The connector- One of the important part of the image because it demonstrates the absorption. It connects me and goes over these faces connecting to the mouth.
• Mouth- This piece is another important one. This goes direct to the point of everything being talked and what can be poisonous. The more comes out of the mouth the more identity is lost. We let others alienate us from what really should matter because of comments and hatred and what needs to be/not be posted.
• Artist inspired work & categorization?
• The artist that inspired my work was definitely Wangechi Mutu. After the videos watched and discussing her work, it was all about that awkward and weird image or video that really made you think about what the image really was.
• This was meant to be a collage image with all of the elements being added.
• Convey to the audience?
• Using the quote of Guy Debord’s assignment it continued to mention the separation and contemplation one has with oneself about living. And how the individual is just now a representation of everything else. When looking at my image I want viewers to focus on that big picture and notice the elements being used go together to this quote. I put myself with these other individuals and shows this bright red mouth of what people use to poison and speak about others and what we let others tell us what is expected.
• Differences
• Between this and my midterm I see change in my technique skills and more meaning behind each little thing that I used and edited. Also my first project was more surrounded around crafts and more of just myself and my struggles with also what things describe me. Now with this project I wanted to challenge myself and use the new inspirations in order to create me image.

30). The alienation of the spectator, which reinforces the contemplated objects that result from his own unconscious activity, works like this: the more he contemplates, the less he lives; the more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him. The spectator does not feel at home anywhere, because the spectacle is everywhere