How Far We've Come

I love the premise for this project. I think the most important part is playing with the idea of repetition to make what might otherwise be considered critical and devastating into something mundane and everyday. The urban-overload hypothesis explains that our brains change when living in big cities--it takes more to distract us because we've gotten used to a massive input of stimuli. In a similar way, it takes more to disturb us when it comes to massacres, catastrophes, etc because we've gotten used to seeing these things on the news. To many of us, these terrors have become mundane and "every-day." I think it plays well with the overall theme of "how far we've come" so it's important to include!

This is a very well thought out outline for your project. Warhol's idea of repetition to represent the desensitization to devastation once we have been exposed to it over long periods of time flows very well with the idea of the progress of one's life. Your idea in incorporating both the positive and negative events that happened over time builds off of Warhol's Death and Disaster series and adds more of an individual touch to the piece. The kinds of colors and the pictures you choose will definitely be a key component of your project. I am looking forward to seeing the final piece! Good luck!

"The black strip with no photographs is there to offset the balance and predictability in the composition. The lack of patterns for the colors is also to create a more spontaneous feeling to the artwork. I wanted to create tension by doing so; the composition itself should evoke a feeling of uneasiness. Drawing from Dondis reading, spontaneity is "an emotion-fraught technique," provoking the viewers."

I find this to be the most successful part of the piece. I immediately found myself staring at that part of the work when I first scrolled throughout it. I tried to make sense of the reason and ended up coming with a hypothesis which matches your intent! I feel that that's a good sign that your work has the intended effect on its viewers!

I enjoy this piece, though I think it would have benefited from even more repetition. The colors chosen are jarring, just as intended, but the real feeling of repetition until the point of apathy isn't quite there. I think that if you added more rows it may have felt more complete. Over all I think it is a very strong piece.