Blog 4

For my final project I will explore the taboo of just being exceptionally different for the youth. I will have a school playground scene to help convey this. This is because most taboos that people deal with that have a huge effect on our lives come as a result of what we see in our schools. There will be different types of cliques such as, the high school “loser.” “The Nerd.” “The Dungeon and dragons group.” I will use this to show how such taboos lead to the most grave of situations. For example, the Virginia Tech Shooting and Columbine. I was thing that I would maybe turn a last supper type of scene into this piece. I would have all the food be playground equipment. And at the Table I would have the teacher be Jesus and the others at the table be different types of taboos on the playground or on campus and in the shadows of the scene, I will have the woes and negatives being depicted in an eerie fashion. I can see this work being used as a memorial for those who fell victim to the outcomes of these taboos.

As far as the pieces that influenced me so far in this project, most of them have unnamed artists but they are different renditions of the last supper scene.







I will also use some of these shadow techniques to express the darkness and sadness that lurks in the shadow of these taboos.


Shadows
Out of Bounds Shadows
Shadow Techniques with Light--Giant Elephant