I liked the idea of appropriation, changing an images meaning by changing it’s context, like collage. It was interesting to learn about the boundaries that could be broken and the thin line between stealing and re-using other people’s work.

Richard Prince caused controversy as he was known to steal other artist’s work and manipulating them without permission. He would take an existing photograph and change its context like the one below by placing a photo of a guitar on top and painting over the man’s face.

Upon starting this project I was thinking of appropriating cardboard box signs and placing them on people rather than boxes to present humans as objects.

Here is in example:

However, my early work lacked direct meaning as they weren’t based on much research.

So I started to research into current issues.

I looked into issues such as the migrant crisis, issues of beauty image, Chile Miners Crisis and technology’s impact on society.