Trash Magazines

During a tutorial with Teresa we discussed the way celebrities are viewed in the modern eye and how this could be related to the Gods to make them modern. This got me thinking about trashy magazines and headlines focusing on celebrities personal lives or embarrassing moments and how the public revel in at exposing celebrities as average human beings. So I started applying these things to the Gods, and given the amount of drama in Greek mythology this was pretty fun to do.

I bought some magazines and cut them up, making collages with photographs of statues. I really enjoy the aesthetic of the juxtaposition between the old statue and the modern text. There is an element of humour to it, and I think that the look of the magazine elements would make it appealing to a modern audience - obviously these are just rough ideas that would be refined.

As part of the first task I chose publishing and book design, and have been having a hard time relating what I'm doing back to that element but this idea could easily be formed into a magazine of some sorts - which is an exciting prospect.

While I have enjoyed this I'm not sure it's something I want to stick with, maybe I can use it as a jumping off point for something. I'm finding this project quite difficult as my ideas keep flitting around and I'm finding it difficult to stick to one thing.