After the crit, and realising I need to learn more about this person I went online and started with the video Matt recommended - 'The Pale blue dot'. Immediately after watching this video I felt like I had a whole new level of understanding about who he was and what he believed in. The video features a speech written by Carl Sagan made in response of a far away photo taken of the earth by the Voyager space 1 probe. The messages he puts across are beautiful and profound, generally looking at the world in the sense of the 'bigger picture' where we are in relation to the universe and therefore what this means for the significance of our home, the insignificance of our conflicts and hatreds, and the self-importance of humanity. Personally I found this video really amazing and moving - I think it sums up Carl Sagan's beleifs, his passions and his role as an educator/communicator. I have started to create some work in response to the key quotes and points in the speech.
I would really like the poster to be illustrating the idea of the 'pale blue dot', and like what I have been making using collage, combining with textures. I do think that the 'blue dot' needs to be smaller though, to create this idea of vastness and insignificance. I also would really like to include a quote to make reference to the fact that is about a speech he made, because I think this communicates his role as an educator.
I have also been making other collages using similar techniques in response to other quotes in the speech. This one is looking at the 'rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that...they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot'. But, I feel much less thrilled by these, I feel likes its hard to put across such profound messages through such simple image making, but on the other hand this is the way I like to work and I don't want to overcomplicate things.
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