I decided to explore the concept of mass surveillance with a piece that resembles the works of street art exposed in “Exit Through the Gift Shop”. I was inspired by Banksy’s ‘Flower Girl’ mural, which depicts a surveillance camera perched atop the stem of a flower while a small child watches, stunned. Thus, I decided to imitate Banksy’s stencil style and ‘steal’ his commentary on the prevalence of cameras in modern society. I even incorporated his camera ‘rat’ into my own piece.
I chose to use Photoshop for this product, mostly relying on the threshold tool to convert images into stencils. Since I am not proficient in Photoshop, I struggled slightly and turned to various tutorials to get the effect I wanted.
I knew I wanted to incorporate flowers into my work so I first experimented with flowers in vases before settling on the field of flowers below:
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