Layer #5

Jessie Li

What was the 'volley' you served? What did you create and how did it respond to the previous material? What is it composed with (materials, shapes, forms)? Describe the textures, colors, etc.

There was already a theme of mass reproduction and marketing in the meme; the newest iteration added on to that theme with all the baby bottles. I thought it was appropriate to the original idea (blending ordinary and extraordinary), that started in the original picture, carried through the thought bubbles, and showed up in the words, which is mocking, both of itself and of commercialism. 

I thought about how, oftentimes, reproducing a work has many problems; you often change what the original author meant, how they wanted the work to feel, and often times the reproduction is lacking in technical skill; something gets warped along the way. I decided to implement these ideas by making the kid cry (which was against the original purpose of the kid, which was to express satisfaction) and I reproduced Pusheen, but missing its tail and some whiskers and it's feet. I placed the reproduction next to the original, to emphasize the changes and to emphasize the feel of reproducing imperfectly.