I thought it would be more logical to post under Major Assignment 3, but since others have posted here I will do it too. I have been working with Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The scene from the book is when the lawyer is hiding, waiting for Hyde to appear so that he can confront him. My opposing themes are Rational vs Primordial (civic vs animalistic). After doing pages and pages of words, reading about the Victorian era, watching the movie, I started to see a interesting idea develop about the morals of the time. People in the middle and rich classes where expected to follow a lot of social rules and dress a certain way. This contrasted Hyde a lot, this ugly, barbaric creature that roamed the streets at night, following his primal instincts and lashing out with anger. I also thought about how people judged each other. The poor where vermin, they where to be blamed for their poverty. All this lead me to the idea of these mannequins in stores, dressed the correct way, looking down at the ugly, hunched creature of Hyde, judging him with a hollow disdain. I found the book particularly difficult to work with, because of very clear opposing theme that already existed in the book. If anything, this book is about opposing themes, and the duality in nature and in us humans. I quickly got an image in my head that was not original, but felt like the right answer to the assignment. A lot of my work was then trying to get rid of that image in my head, and think further and find less obvious answers. I hope that my conceptual idea is clear enough here, and shines through the narrative and the environment. This was the most challenging part of the assignment. I tried to stick with an interior illustration too, because that seemed even more of a challenge. This course is really stretching my mind, I love it!

I chose the film There Will be Blood. I wanted to show the coming of the oil industry. How it develops itself and takes over what was once in there before. I wanted to show Daniel with the milkshake mostly because it's this innocent thing, but within the context of the dialog in the film it's something else, he's also covered in oil as he's slowly being consumed by his obsession.

Mashup corroding robot in a junk yard and nursery rhyme “Twinkle, twinkle little star”; Robot contemplating how to revive and get out of the junk yard…hope? from the light of a little star