jacob theobald
Alien Soldiers, 2013
The Year started off in a rather detailed and controlled manner, I would construct acrylic paintings carefully in order to represent distorted news imagery (Imagery distorted through physical manipulation). The original idea with this was to emphasize that we are fed information through the news that forces us to see things from a certain perspective. But there is so much information that we do not see, due to it being censored.
This paintings shows three almost alien-like figures who appear to be operating war machinery, their featureless faces give them a lack of identity and so they are not being described as human. The hand is emphasized to show it’s operation of machinery, that is responsible for causing suffering in times of war. This also raises the awareness that humans are capable of ending a life in an instance, and in times of war, will not hesitate to do so.
The background further alienates the setting as there are no objects that would otherwise help to add a location to the painting. The figures are therefore suspended in an empty space, with nothing but a purple and yellow sky behind them, which could further the idea of the painting being set upon a different planet.
Alien Soldiers, 2013
The Year started off in a rather detailed and controlled manner, I would construct acrylic paintings carefully in order to represent distorted news imagery (Imagery distorted through physical manipulation). The original idea with this was to emphasize that we are fed information through the news that forces us to see things from a certain perspective. But there is so much information that we do not see, due to it being censored.
This paintings shows three almost alien-like figures who appear to be operating war machinery, their featureless faces give them a lack of identity and so they are not being described as human. The hand is emphasized to show it’s operation of machinery, that is responsible for causing suffering in times of war. This also raises the awareness that humans are capable of ending a life in an instance, and in times of war, will not hesitate to do so.
The background further alienates the setting as there are no objects that would otherwise help to add a location to the painting. The figures are therefore suspended in an empty space, with nothing but a purple and yellow sky behind them, which could further the idea of the painting being set upon a different planet.