Watch Me Watch You
Made by Paola Aguilar
Made by Paola Aguilar
This project uses Banksy's 'Flower Girl' mural as inspiration, and a source of content and style for a piece that comments on the mass surveillance that prevails in modern society.
Created: October 11th, 2015
This project uses Banksy's 'Flower Girl' mural as inspiration, and a source of content and style for a piece that comments on the mass surveillance that prevails in modern society.
I like the way the cameras and the flowers go together in your final product. When they are up close, it is easy to see which one is the flower and which one is the camera, but I didn't notice the other cameras until you pointed it out in the critique. Though you seemed uncertain, I think the image does convey the themes you want it to. Some of the flowers are a little difficult to see, because it is Photoshop's threshold tool, but overall, I think that helps the cameras blend in. After seeing all of the cameras, I would advise you to maybe integrate them more in between the flowers, or something of the like, but I didn't notice them at first anyways. I'm curious as to what other flower pictures you were considering, but I do like the image you chose.
I enjoy the aesthetic appeal of your final piece. However, it is a little unclear as to why you chose to include flowers into your stencil. I think it might be because Banksy decided to place a surveillance camera on top of a flower stem, and you chose to make something similar to that. I like how the flowers and cameras blend together, so that it isn't immediately obvious that there are cameras in the field of flowers. Although we aren't aware of them, they are always there.
The piece looks really great and is something that I can definitely imagine seeing somewhere. I think you really did capture the idea you were going with as the piece reminds me of how many cameras there are hidden in plain sight all around. I think the idea to put it in a flower field instead of a vase was a good idea because to me it comments more on the prevalence of cameras if the cameras are hidden among a flower field. I think my only comment would be that while I like the idea of using different cameras I think the piece would look more cohesive had the third camera been the same as the first two. To me the first two cameras blend in better with the type of flower you chose. Also I think to get the right corner busier you should try and repaint the right corner flowers into a darker color and then threshold since Photoshop turns yellow and white into white.
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