Lane Minor DI Fall 2020

  This is the first of the four photos for this Project. After choosing this image, the idea of separating the car and moving the flames from the monk to the car's bonnet sprung into my mind. So I did that. The generic parking lot was a choice to have an aligning perspective.

  A higher resolution image of Thich Quang Duc and other monks committing self-immolation in protest of the Vietnam War.

I chose the photo of Thich Quang Duc burning alive as my iconic photograph because three ideas on altering the image significantly jumped out right away. One of these images will be the car by itself, with the flames bursting from the hood. Another will be of Thich Quang Duc sitting by a body of water, the dark area of fire next to his face patterned on a cliff wall behind him to make a water reflection-like pattern. Another will be using the monk on the left of the image as a base for something, I don't know yet. And the final image I will make will take the same monk from the left and have him taking the gasoline can to his car, with a new setting outside of a gas station to give the illusion that his car simply broke down and he had to walk to purchase more gasoline.

I am keen on procrastinating. I am also keen on changing my projects at the last minute. I did both of these things for this project, as I didn't feel like my initial idea was good or working or anything, really. After six hours trying to work with my previous ideas, I threw in the towel, because I was frustrated at getting nowhere substantial. So, for my new appliance, I chose my television. I recreated each of these angles in Illustrator as instructed. My thought process was to create each viewpoint adequately while not overworking on shadows on details unrelated to the statement of this piece. It's for this reason that the AV cables and the warning sticker were not included in my recreations. My main theme for the project was to place the box televisions in a pile similar to children's blocks. This would draw a connection between the alphabet blocks and the television set, as a way to criticize people who rely on their television to educate their children. To that end, I...