This post is a little out of order, given the last I wrote about my RMIT projects was Year 3 Silversmithing. It’s strange that I completely forgot about this when writing about Year 1, but these things happen.
I cannot find the original assessment specification sheet (or whatever it’s called – you know what I mean), though I believe it was to create an artwork that had specific reference to one of the theoretical aspects we’d learnt about during our Theory class. I chose to further research and explore “the desensitisation to, and ‘consumerisation’ of, images – particularly images of suffering.”
untitled object; image not to be reproduced without permission
A significant influence on this work were the writings of Susan Sontag, especially her 1977 essay ‘On Photography‘.
The (reasonably brief) essay accompanying the object explains the selection of the image and the construction of the ‘dog-tag’ neckpieces:
Karen Thompson_Y1S2_Theory
[this is an original research essay; no content is to be reproduced without permission]
untitled object; image not to be reproduced without permission
… last post in this series: RMIT Year 3, Semester 1, Silversmithing …
… see more projects from RMIT Year 1 here …
Melbourne Jeweller 