The Alienation

What is the subject of your image? 

- The subject of my image us the alienation and absorption that this era has come due to social media. Throughout this course and mostly towards the end we continued to speak about how we can become affected by the expectations of society and loss of our own identities.

What is the content? 

- The content of my image is myself surrounded by faces with an odd looking connector to an open mouth sitting on top of the faces. While on the top of the image a moon is there with a shadow on the right edge surrounded by the ripple effect caused by the water.

-Choices:

Moon- The idea of having a moon in the image is to connect my meaning for it in it. The moon to me shows that not even darkness can hide beauty. This includes the environment but regarding people as well and the evilness in personalities.

Water- The water and ripple effect symbolizes people opinions spreading across our world and minds. 

Faces- This is to show the society. They are all the same color and type of filter with eye shot because identities are now viewed as the same. And the alteration everyone does to themselves in order to fit in and look/act like others.

Me- I included myself because I do admit to changing my appearance and following what is trendy. Social media has affected me in many ways mentally just because of people's opinions. 

Umbilical Cord- Demonstrates birth. The birth of what has become poison. And this connects to me and the mouth piece.

Mouth- This piece is one of the most eye catching and thought provoking one too. This goes directly to symbolize people's mouth. And it is open for the thought of comments about people and the negativity. The more comes out the more people lose their identities to be seen and become just like others. That is also why I chose to let it sit on top of the faces and connect the way it did. 

-Artist Inspired & Categorization

The artist that inspired this work was Wagenchi Mutu. After videos and discussions her work was interesting and really made me stop and think like woahhh what is she doing here. I would categorized this image as a collage. 

-Convey to the audience? 

Through this image what I was trying to convey is this alienation we have between ourselves trying to be just like others. Using quote #30 from Guy Debord's The Spectator it explained the separation and contemplation one has with oneself about what it is to be living. When looking at my image I want viewers to look at every element in order to feel some type of separation society and myself experience. 

-Differences 

Between this and my midterm a lot has changed. This is now a digital collage meanwhile my midterm was a poster done with crafts and less meaning. Also the midterm was about me and what describes me as a person. 

Quote: 

#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.