Civilian

Hi everyone this is a new blog post from myself it's been a while so I thought I should up date you to what I have currently been working on. this piece of work is title 'Civilian' this resorts back to a couple week when I viewed a documentary about 'Sri Lanka's Killing Fields' on Channel 4. This had been so hard hitting and shocking for me as so innocent peoples lives had been taken away, as the UN stood by and did nothing this is the common case for many countries. This angered me I want to turn this in to a visual getting my point across to all my viewers.

Bring this image together the main focus was using the face of Fredrick Douglas a civil war leader in the year of 1845 where he thought for many rights. With what appears to be birds fly out of his left eye this is a presentation of freedom in the eyes a leader, in hope that he gives to his people to set them free. As we wonder to the bottom of the this image I created a concept of using the most hated people around the world that brought there country to turmoil, taking there masculinity away from them I wanted portray the look of inferior, this is shown by having women's features. In the far corner there displays a boy holding a sign saying 'hope' he is a representation of his people.

This piece is exhibited at the Whitecross Street Market, Barbican, London, EC1 8JL as well as a variety of other contributing artist, further events taking place are the Whitecross Street Party on the dates of 23rd and 24th of July 2011 for further details please click on this link Whitecross Street Party.

To watch the documentary on the events in Sri Lanka, Please Click 'Sri Lanka's Killing Fields'.