Aid 4 AIDS
In this project, it has undergo the expansion of a spark and into a flame, from an interest to a passion. My original idea was to research the biggest benefit concert - Live Aid - and to see its affects from the 80s to the present, but that piece didn't quite fit into the larger puzzle. With guidance, I had to see underneath the facade of the greatest concert of all time to see what they could've done to fix themselves (United Kingdom and United States) before trying to fix other people's problems. With my research, I was able to see the growing epidemic in the 80s that expanded beyond the U.S, the AIDS epidemic. Beyond the standard amount of research, this fit into the larger piece of how countries are willing to donate others for something that is normal that has happened before, but shed away from something that is new and that brings more issues along with it. To express my research and the issue, I decided to a benefit concert poster to not have it raise money for Ethiopian famine, but for AIDS research. For my history portion, I wrote a fictional piece that illustrated that view of an African American homosexual, Daniel who goes through coming out to his white heterosexual roommate who handles it in a certain fashion that causes a reaction with Daniel. Through my first project, I believe this is one of my greatest works and I can only think to myself, "How can I top this?"
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By the flashing neon colors that catch the eye to the details in the ribbon, this would be quite the thing to talk about today and back in the 80s/90s. Upon forming this piece, I had to take part in finding posters from that time that had shown prevalent pattern that wasn't too late for this time period. The Pearl Jam poster was a huge part in my project for how I had the main subject contrast to the pattern in the background and have the lettering being brought out by the black background. Specifically, I showed contextualization by having the pattern in my background have an LBTQ+ symbol in the background, the pink triangle, which was a sign used on many activists posters from the gay community. The lighter green color in the background shows life, and by lowering its opacity, I was able to bring life to this piece and make the triangles stand out against the green. Not only had this been a new way of doing a poster - I was very used to having to do posters on paper by hand - but this had been a way for me to learn new software and new techniques on my computer which made it stand out. This poster was built for change and to bring attention to that growing epidemic that was in the 1980s to now, a ongoing global epidemic that has captured victims of any ethnicity, sexual interest and gender.
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SYNOPSIS
"The New Life" is the title of my work that shows the life of an African American living through not only the AIDS epidemic, but the life of very active racism which shaped the lives of many individuals. One of these individuals is Daniel who not only works in a place of newspapers, but is surrounded by propaganda that shapes views and controls the power in a city. Upon his roommate, Jared, finding Daniel in a daze after being furious over a particular headline, things turn from innocent to deadly in minutes. Secrets breach the surface, but as Daniel realizes that it can be false until proven true and with no witnesses...
Context is apparent through this story as there are many mentions to not only the past and the present of the AIDS epidemic, but many references to the ongoing issues in the late 1980s of cocaine, racism, segregation, on rise in rent, etc.
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