Collateral Damage

ok, i'm going to try something new. i've always had trouble turning my opinions into words (recently discovered this is called disgraphia). that's why i turned to art- i can express my feelings freely. so i'm going to post one of those ranty peices of art on this blog instead of writing about it. i think it's message is pretty obvious, but if this isn't okay, please tell me.






without further adoo: "Collateral Damage"

ugg... the glare on the glaze i used to tack all the collage papers down is really glarey in this picture. if you can't tell, the gray things at the top are jet planes, they're dropping bombs on an abstracted city skyline.

a close-up of the focus of the picture. you can't read the text in this bad picture, but it reads, "who dropped the bombs? it didn't matter-to her." as i said, really obvious. i even drew the girl on a tag labled "evidence". if you want to get a closer look at these, they're up on my Flikr account.

....is this okay? or am i going to fail?

edited line photots

the edits on this one are very simple.

none of these are quite as good as my earlier digital collages, but they're still decent.

this one just turned out funny.

ugh. this one didn't turn out too well. but i'm tired and i can bareley see the screen in this lab, so i guess it's too be expected.

oooooh...is it too teenie? hope not.

so far with the magnets

well, i'm going to make magnets to stick everywhere for learning disorders. here's what i've done so far:

i started by finding a website that talks about learing disorders. http://www.ldonline.org/ is a network for people with learning disabilities (LD) and it had pages that talked about the symptoms of LD. it broke down into three categories:

-dislexia (reading problems)

-discalcula (math problems)

-disgraphia (processing and writing problems)

i made slogans for all three of these, and typed them into a word processor (first picture). i then printed them onto magnetic sheets and cut them into bumper-sticker like sheets.(at left)

in the end, i think they need a central slogan and a citing of rescources- though i don't want to put up a blog (especially since these are going into grade schools) and i don't want to leave myself open to lawsuit by putting the LD Online site on them.

Design Statement for Project 1

okay, i admit, i was totally lost. i've never done (or even heard of) a design statement before. so i looked it up on the internet. if this is wrong, please tell me.

Design Statement:

One of the greatest problems when trying to stop animal cruelety is apathy. People think that kids hurting animals on halowe'en is just a harmless prank, and there is no way to start the conversation about abuse with children. This creates the illusion that abuse is acceptable, because they have never been told it is wrong. I wanted a way to raise awareness and empathy among children.
I wanted a way to reach children without frightening them. Cute stuffed animals draw children, and these that i made sort of have a "damaged" twist that can be popular with certian groups of kids and teens.
Unfortunateley, i'm an artist, not a psycologist, so the idea that copycat crimes could be spawned by these pathetic creatures makes the whole project fail in my eyes.

Giving up the teens.

this shows just how bad it is when parent's can't find help for their borderline kids.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/us/03omaha.html

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