Earlier on this year I received a project from University which was to generate a 24 page book, which displayed the idea of Utopia/Dystopia. The outcomes could be anything from photographs to a graphic novel.
For this, I came up with the idea of finding and taking photographs of places which in my eyes were utopic and adding something to the scene which then made it dystopic.
My idea was to add graffiti to the photograph, which was going to be displayed on a range of materials. By adding these small graffiti elements to the image, it made it change from utopia to dystopia.
The grafitti stencils, which I decided to make myself, were things which we have in the world today that I think many people overlook and take for granted. This is why I decided to create these stencils, to show people what it is we have around us. It was made as an infectious advertisement campaign. There was no need for me to spell it out, the stencils were there for people to decide themselves.
For this, I came up with the idea of finding and taking photographs of places which in my eyes were utopic and adding something to the scene which then made it dystopic.
My idea was to add graffiti to the photograph, which was going to be displayed on a range of materials. By adding these small graffiti elements to the image, it made it change from utopia to dystopia.
The grafitti stencils, which I decided to make myself, were things which we have in the world today that I think many people overlook and take for granted. This is why I decided to create these stencils, to show people what it is we have around us. It was made as an infectious advertisement campaign. There was no need for me to spell it out, the stencils were there for people to decide themselves.
At the start of the book I decided to ask the viewer a question before they saw the imagery within the book.
“Look around, tell me…. What do you see?”
The aim of this was to leave the person viewing the book thinking about whether we are living in a utopian world after all, or are there underlining dystopian facts which we try to blank out.
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