Weird Durer

One more...these may not be conceptually strong but they amuse me nonetheless

I'm still not sure if this is the direction my project will take but I feel I need to try things out so that I know what I do and don't want to do...

another one I just made

contemporary composographs

A composograph is a collage using photography that was used in early tabloid magazines to fabricate otherwise unattainable scenes and depictions of famous people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composograph

Because I liked the MJ/Dix similarities I've been searching for other celebrity pictures that resemble fine art portaiture. I found that Egon Schiele looks quite a bit like Edward from the Twilight movies, so I made my own composograph of them:

media, tabloids and truth

I've decided to look at supermarket tabloids for the final project, examining how they exploit and stretch "truths" about celebrities, and how people buy into this [in varying degrees] depending on the believability of the images and how much they want to believe what they see...

In my google image searching I found a hilarious and pretty uncanny image of Michael Jackson that resembled one of the paintings from the Otto Dix exhibition. Check it out:

I loved that particular painting, The Artist's Family (1927) - how Dix's wife is shown as this matriarch figure and he's represented himself as this grimacing, almost deranged looking child...not unlike Jackson and his deranged looking wife on the tabloid magazine. Even the red shirts match...it's so bizarre. I love it.

Planet of the Apoidea

Human technology often mirrors or builds upon (and exploits) animal technologies. In this project I am looking at how animal technologies, in particular the use of pheromones, work in respect to the manipulation and control of a colony of bees. My project will make a satirical comment on human society, particularily of the unabashed struggle for power and control of other species and other humans. Technology is not the end but the means for this acquistion of power.

These are just rough copies.