Politics
The Trump administration is too hard to resist. It's ridiculousness is too fascinating to not explore as my main focus for the visual journal. The theme I am drawn to most is their 'alternative view' of the world. Post-fact era means they can have their own version of reality, a world of made up terrorist attacks and statistics. I will try to develop ideas in my journal of what their alternate universe might look like and how it interacts with the known universe.
The cabinet
Reading up on the quotes and views of some of Trump's cabinet nominees is alarming and some of them are extreme and seem to be removed from modern civilization. So some of the quotes they have dropped seem to have more power when they stand alone without ridicule as they are so extreme in themselves. Quotes that maybe would be sane and rational in their own alternate universe.
Alternate universe
I will explore what media and compositions, shapes and colour best illustrate an alternate universe. I like the realism drawings as they constitute 'reality' and will clash nicely with disorientating geometric shapes and bizarre quotes from the cabinet/administration.
Material - found images
The drawings have been fun to do but collage could be a powerful tool and perhaps more powerful in it's flexibility when I need to create surreal imagery. I will collect images from newspapers and continue to draw from reference until I find an effective way of expressing the alternate world using hand drawn media.
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