For this project, I looked through the archived documents available and found that the most interesting one was a magazine article titled: The Dark and Dangerous Side of Women's Suffrage. This document went over phrases and quotes of women suffragists and warped them to sound bad and make them seem like radicalists. The main text I took was one quote under the segment titled “Downfall of the Home” where it says, “The Home of today is a permanent check upon the growth of Humanity.”
For this project, I looked through the archived documents available and found that the most interesting one was a magazine article titled: The Dark and Dangerous Side of Women's Suffrage. This document went over phrases and quotes of women suffragists and warped them to sound bad and make them seem like radicalists. The main text I took was one quote under the segment titled “Downfall of the Home” where it says, “The Home of today is a permanent check upon the growth of Humanity.”
An issue I drew interest from was the influx of Saudi Arabia’s oil with the US Dollar. When looking at the way America is built, it feels like everything relies on oil. If oil wasn’t America’s number one source of world value, our nation would not be as powerful as it is now.
I wanted to create the feeling of a cement wall that has layers and years of different poster signs and symbols. Starting with the top text that reads “The Home of Today” which I envisioned to be part of an advertisement unrelated to the rest of the piece, I then used the Saudi Aramco logo and American flag next to each other in the idea that a separate identity was created without malice intent. The two characters over the logos represent oil and the US dollar where they hold hands. Finally, I included a graffiti technique. This piece is meant to represent the immersion and reality that our modern day America views propaganda day to day.
the original archival document
progress of painting
after some layering
