Personally I am most interested in creating illustrations that mean something, and hopefully evoke positive change in the world. This currently is achieved most successfully within an editorial context as illustrations being featured in magazine and news articles provides the opportunity for mass and immediate communication.
In forming a project proposal I am finding this desire to use my illustrations as a way to generate awareness on issues that matter to me conflicting with my love for art objects - whether this be beautiful clothing, books, ceramics or textiles.
Ideally I would like to combine the two, however I question whether people want politically or socially active images to be present on their clothing or homeware. Also how would you make these art objects featuring these illustrations desirable?
Personally I think its an interesting problem to confront because ultimately if you were able to create images that evoke social change and place them into the context of people's homes or clothing they become a part of their daily life, therefore perhaps triggering a more lasting impact in shaping this persons thinking.
My initial idea to solve this problem is to create a collection of homewares or patterns for printed textiles that confront the social or political issues featured in my selected content. I would simplify or abstract the illustrations (which is part of my usual style anyway) in order to make the images desirable and non-confrontational, whilst still reflecting the issues at hand in an obvious way. The collection would be promoted in association with a particular cause, as well as a proportion of the profits going towards a selected charity (who would be commissioning the project?).
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