I approached the exercise by first imagining a common scene, then asking myself how I could subvert people's expectations about that scene by adding and removing an item. I did this multiple times until I settled on the campfire scene.
In designing this project, I had to choose where to place the earth and what to leave in color. I initially placed the Earth within the fire, but I realized that that was not Banksy's style. It would be too straightforward and simple of an imagery for global warming. Neither was it particularly eye pleasing. Ultimately, I placed the Earth on the person's marshmallow stick to emphasize our responsibility and blame in global warming, and underline our passive acceptance of it.
Additionally, I had to choose what to leave in color. Initially I wanted to emphasize the fire. However, I realized that to fit Banksy's style and also to keep in the theme of global warming, I had to emphasize Earth over the fire. The Earth is the item "out of place", so it made sense to color that.
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