Project Lies: Final Pieces
For my final pieces I began thinking about scale and ways of conveying my ideas. My first lie is a children’s tale ”There are monsters in our house and if you don’t go to bed they are going to come and eat you”. I ended up creating a small set of a hallway with a cupboard under the stairs. The original plan was to make two one downstairs and one in a bedroom looking under the bed. I thought the monsters under the bed was a bit too cliché and obvious and with the time restriction I ended up with just one set. I photographed it from different angles with different lighting which were then touched up on Photoshop just to smooth out the rough edges. Overall I am pleased with the final outcome especially considering it was my first time of making a set.
My second theme was identity, shown through photographic images of myself that I played around with on Photoshop to convey plastic surgery, changing someone’s looks, what identifies them is a lie. The first image I tried to make look quite robotic showing no emotion to convey the idea of people having all the same idea of what is beautiful but really they’re just starting to look like everyone else like a clone. The second image shows half the face natural with the other with high contrast, high makeup quantity and highly fake outlook. The 3rd is my favourite, the skin looks almost grafted and very badly at that, the makeup is painted on in a smile and the surgery lines almost blend in to the poorly constructed face.
