So I was out sick Wednesday and Thursday last week and as a
result didn't get an lot of work done. I was feeling better by Sunday and
decided to take my camera on a walk around the town. Initially I was hoping to
capture photos that would show, in some way, something, anything at all about
the country!! I took photos of unfinished housing estates and road works that
have been left abandon due to the economic climate, buildings under construction and others that have been neglected, which has lead to their deterioration. I then started taking
photos of groups of young adults/teenagers, thinking of them as being 'the hope for the future'
(cheesy I know). That didn't go on for too long though. I felt some of them may
get a little bit offended if they spotted me... I chickened out. So I ended up
just taking snaps of things that appealed to me on my way back.
When I got home I decided to play around with making the letter A from both words, Asunder and Anarchy. For Asunder I cut out the shape of the letter and began sticking bright happy pictures on the front solid side and made it fall apart as it rotated around to the far side, which has dark, more depressing photos depicting a 'broken' county along with negative newspaper headings, relating to the nation.
For Anarchy I was thinking of weapons. Like mobs of people attacking the government, going mad altogether. So I went out to the garden and broke branches and twigs off trees at an angle to try make them look sharp at the tops, like spears.... (It didn't translate as well as I'd hoped, was very ethnic-y looking with a hint of blair witch!)
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