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 have found more interest in is the influx in Saudi Arabia’s oil with the US Dollar. In recent years, the us dollar has been directly concerning the change in oil value, and the number one oil company in the world Saudi Aramco, almost stands at the top with full control over the US currency and at this point social balance. When looking at the way America is built, literally 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. This issue makes me wonder how much control we have as individuals in America and if our free will is truly equal to those in Russia or Spain where oil is less dominating.
I wanted to create the feeling of a cement wall that has layers and years of different posters 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 putting them next to each other in the idea that a separate identity came and out those there without malice intent. And then I added two characters over the logos representing oil and the US dollar where they held hands. I then covered that with handcuffs and below I used 3 different layers, the first was a blue text saying the rest of the quote but I made it seem like typeface for a business, then red type over that saying “Is a permanent check on the growth in” but it's not meant to be legible. Finally, I included graffiti that fades and a poster or two trying to give the environment more convincing features and over top in a funky type says the final words of the quote “Humanity” 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
