Selim's Blog

Civilization

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#1: Development:

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Five Layers makes up this interesting array. These are images from the Elizabethtown-Cecilia area, but they all tend to fall together. I was aiming for a more 1950s feel in surroundings, and hoped I aimed for that. The circles were designed to lead you in the last picture. I hoped that the first thing to catch your attention was the colorful image of the grassland, then you get the pink-tinted overlay of a loan building (the first structure?) That leads to a well developed area, possibly one of a downtown area in black and white. I wanted these to be symbolic that the color has the most life in it and the so called development causes that life to disappear as more happens. These are on a plain textile from lostandfound.

#2: Barbarism (Will be posted Thursday)

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This is an image based around an old abandoned farm which I started to white out into the sky a bit to give it a feeling of deteroration (which prolly can't be seen). I have a darker sky in it,a purplish which to me gives a more darker feeling but that again might not have moved.

I changed the picture froma series of purples to a series of reds to fade in with the fires. Like the last one I kept a series of circles.

Finally got the debris in the midground to avoid a long blank area. It's dark, in front ofi t a flame makes it look like a pile of sad didn't mean to do that.

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The point behind all of this was a fortune teller looking into an open fire and seeing an image. I gave it sort of a window view though. I'm not sure if barbarism was conveyed, since it's a really hard word to do because one person's barbarism is another man's civilization so it was hard to find just what I was looking for without looking condescending.