THE
FINAL
Project
Brinna Thomsen
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For my final project in my time class, I projected three silent videos
on the walls of a room simulaneously while the song ‘We Move
Lightly” played in the background. In one, a hand reaches desparately for smoke to symbolize the quest for perfection. In another,
a hand arranges diamonds meticulously until at the end it destroys
the scene out of frustration. The last video depicts a perfectionist’s
inner critic abusing them by screaming that they are not good
enough and that they will never be worth anything.
MY WORK
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The videos were
accompanied by
large prints of two
photographs. One
photo is of a a girl
being buried by her
rejected ideas and
the other is of a
crowd of girls holding mirrors meant to
symbolize the perfectionist’s
tendency to compare themselves to
others.
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The drawings that I have
made for my studio class this
semester really illustrate my
interest playing with
illusions, reflections and light.
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These drawings also
show my interest in
portraits and human
emotions, which is
something that I
hadn’t realised until
now. I was even
playing with these
themes before I
came to Parsons
without realising it
like this photo.
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NARRATIVE
ILLUSTRATION
INSP IRATION
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NARRATIVE
P HOTOGRAP HY
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Transparency
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Obscurity
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Desperate to conform to an ideal and
IMPOSSIBLE STANDARD, many women
go to great lengths to manipulate and
change their faces and bodies. A woman
is conditioned to view her face as a mask
and her body as an object, as things separate from and more important than her
real self, constantly in need of alteration,
improvement, and disguise. She is made
to feel dissatisfied with and ASHAMED of
herself, whether she tries to achieve “the
look” or not. Objectified constantly by others, she learns to objectify herself.”
- Jean Kilbourne
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Advertising creates a mythical,
mostly white world in which
people are rarely ugly, overweight, poor, struggling or disabled, either physically or mentally
- Jean Kilbourne
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By remaining unaware of the profound seriousness of the ubiquitous
influence, the redundant message
and the subliminal impact of advertisements,we ignore one of the most
powerful ‘educational’ forces in our
culture -- one that greatly affects our
self-images, or ability to relate to
each other, and effectively destroys
any awareness and action that might
help change that climate.
- Jean Kilbourne
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In a simpler time, advertising merely called attention to the product and extolled its advantages,
Now it manufactures a product of it’s own: the
consumer, perpetually unsatisfied, restless, anxious,
bored. Advertising serves not so much to advertise
products as to promote consumption as a way of
life...the propaganda of commodities turns alienation itself into a commodity. - Doug Mann
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FINAL
PROJECT
PROPOSAL
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Ideas
1. a series of ‘anti-advertisements’ that
would be made photos with metaphors
that would illustrate the negative effects of
advertising’s hold on the idea of beauty
2. A illustrated children’s book aimed at
teaching kids the importance of defining
thier own definition of beauty, following
thier own values and being skeptical of advertising and the media.
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