Im not sure right now wether this decision is going to turn out right or wrong. But, I want to combine the use of the child portrait, from old projects to play on the stereotype of childhood innocence, against the 'monstrous' politicians. Although finding images of these recognisable politicians is proving harder than it looks.
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I came across an image today, and it gave me an idea. Unusually, I arrived early to a gravity lecture. There was only a handful of people around, and they were all busy chatting in their own little groups. I was stood looking at all the images of people hanging outside the pennine lecture theatre, when I came across the image of a famous politician. A person that I had an outright opinion of, and it wasn't often I had and opinion on someone in politics. Well, I had my UV pen in my pocket and I thought it amusing to scrawl this opinion on the politicians frame. I found it interesting that thousands of students may inadvertently view this picture and never actually see this opinion; not unless they were carrying a UV torch.
I thought that unless the image is ever taken down this piece of artwork would remain on public view for the foreseeable future all the while people would be unaware of this ongoing exhibition. It also occurred to me that that image or that person will never be the same again in my mind; every time I see the image going to a lecture I will chuckle, every time I see him on TV, in a newspaper or on the radio I will think of this act of 'graffiti' and chuckle. My final question however is, is this graffiti, even though no one can see it, and no one is therefore affecter by it?
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