My research, the answers received from my fellow classmates, showed that I had to make something related to consumerism, something about how what we have or buy defines us, or what the consequences of materialism are, or what and how the media changed how we look at things, for example at how the advertisements make a simple item, a dustbin in this example seem miraculous. "This dustbin cleans ten times faster giving you eons of time to do whatever you like."
However I chose how us humans having things, or on the other hands not having things makes us outcasts out of society. This exist everywhere, although the items in question range differently from all the society. For example a wealthy women from a tribe somewhere in Africa wearing nice colorful robes and married to the man who owns the largest amount of cattle, and treated as a queen in her tribe might just as well be treated like a beggar in a large city because she doesn't have the newest Gucci bag or the iPhone. However a city queen with loads of money, in jeans and a H&M top, having the latest Gucci bag and an iPhone 4s, will be treated like something extremely strange in the village of the African women. That is the reality of life.
So to put this into an artwork I googled some images of a african house, an a city as to different background, and a city girl, in my case Hillary Duff with a bag looking really shoppin spree-ish, and a rural lady, which unfortunately is not an african lady but another rural women.
I glued Hillary Duff in the african village and the rural lady in the city, and as I suspected they both look quite out of place.
Then I put the caption of "the item you have defines who you are" a spelling mistake though, it's supposed to be define, not defines.
But the message comes across.
This is the City Girl in Rural Village side of the work.
This is the Rural Lady in City side of the work.
The whole art work. (with the spelling mistake)
-M-
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