Richard Hamilton Collage
We were given the task of recreating a modern day version of the famous Richard Hamilton collage titled “Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?”. This piece was intended to convey modern life at that point in history.
Hamilton’s collage explores many themes, these include: men, women, food, history, newspaper, cinema, domestic appliances, cars, space, comics, TV, telephone and information.
I decided to take a political route with mine, the main message I was trying to portray was that we are all so engrossed in technology and our own life’s that we don’t notice all the pain and suffering going on around us. I have titled it ‘Life as we know it.’
Analysis:
The TV — On the TV is a screen grab from a news broadcast about the war going on in Syria. The US sent 25 bombs plummeting into the country with some even landing dangerously close to a school.
The overweight man — Nearly two thirds of people living in the UK are obese, this is a serious problem as obesity is one of the leading preventable causes of death in the world.
Notches on the wall — I’m trying to convey that we are prisoners to ourselves, real experiences are becoming a thing of the past and everyone is trapped in their own little online world.
Computer Desktops — Youtubers and ‘social media influencers’ are gaining more and more power over the younger generations. Their actions have more consequences than they realise and this means that when they make a public mistake it creates quite the impact. One particular youtuber called Logan Paul stupidly filmed a dead body in a the Japanese ‘Suicide Forest’ and he appeared to be laughing in the video. He shared this video to his millions of followers (The majority of whom are younger than 15) and received huge backlash and ended up losing millions.
The Gamer — The gaming community is growing faster than it ever has before and although this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it is just distracting people even more to the disintegration of humanity.
The picture on the wall — This image represents the sociopaths mask. It is known that 1 in 25 people is a sociopath so that means that everyone has met at least one sociopath in their life. I myself must have a friend who is a sociopath.
