Intention

As stated in my proposal, I wanted to advance the work I did in module 1 and make it more generally appealing and interesting. In particular, I wanted to take something that already existed, and build over top of it to create something new. This is when the idea of recontextualization came to me, and I decided to find something that I could place into a new context and thus change the meaning. This is the reason why I worked with this sign because the generalized figures on the sign could already be interpreted in many different ways, and it gave me the freedom to add to it in a multitude of ways to change the meaning of the sign. I wanted viewers to be able to see these different viewpoints, and change their opinion based on the context that the sign had been placed in. This idea is particularly important currently with the huge influence "fake news" had during the recent presidential election in the United States.