Activism Project Thought Process

I began this project by missing the day to choose groups. Not a good way to start off. I thought about using either the topic of homelessness or the topic of racism. I thought it would be a good idea. But as I thought about them I realized that I really had no idea of where to go or where to begin for that matter. I got some ideas from watching the art 21 videos. The art that I wanted to do wasn't so much "protest art". What I wanted to do was just make people aware of what was going on around them. I decided to make my own group for "social awareness". I felt that I couldn't focus on just one topic so why work on one topic? I could create a sort of umbrella group that contained all of the groups in one. "Social awareness" is basically the awareness that you are a part of the issue whether you want to be or don't want to be. I thought about an installation piece. I threw out the idea to my teammates and they liked it. I wanted to create a space where the issues took over and forced the viewer to address the fact that they are apart of it. I thought about a room full of boxes covered in different materials and different styles emulating the idea or issue that it pertained to. Each of the boxes would have either a mirror or a shattered mirror inside. The boxes would take up so much space that the viewer would have to walk around them delicately and carefully as not to knock anything over. After my group and I started to map out the time frame and resources needed, we came to the conclusion that we did not have enough time to do all of what we wanted to do. I thought that maybe we could save alot of time by using arrows. The arrows could still overwhelm the room by forcing the viewer to walk on them or over them. The mirror could still be there but maybe in a smaller box signifying the way that people don't pay much attention to this simple fact. They are responsible. They can have a say.


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This project was alot of fun, but it was a TON of work. We pretty much worked non-stop for a 2 days. Well worth it.