My work, Star Wars, makes art out of manipulating perspective, and leading the audience to see something which is ordinarily very familiar to them, in a completely new way.
So I took some of the most iconic and well-known symbols of the film Star Wars, and made them completely unrecognisable. The core image I used was the mask of Darth Vader, with the Star Wars logo repeated in the background. I drew the mask (using pencil and black ink), then digitally split it into many segments. I then 'scrambled' the segments, and composed them into a very abstract work (see above).
BELOW: To make these symbols even more unrecognisable, I took the scrambled drawing, split it yet again into nine segments, then mounted them. I mounted them on a shattered mirror, which I had previously painted black in order to scratch some of the paint away--revealing the mirror, but giving it a very broken and distressed look (which adds to the overall disorder of the piece).
(Below) Finally, to bring the work even further, I created a video to play over the piece, via an overhead-projector. For the video, I collected more iconic star wars images and sounds, 'scrambled' them, and played them in quick succession (on loop). The video (and sound) was very effective over the piece, especially as the light of the overhead-projector reflected against the mirror.
The overall effect of the piece was a very chaotic, yet somehow logical and orderly, composition of many iconic Star Wars sounds and images. I had succeeded in making something new and unfamiliar out of something which is usually recognisable by all.
Below are more of the developmental works, for Star Wars:
ABOVE: The Darth Vader masks. Drawn in black ink (used in final work), ink and pencil, and only pencil.
ABOVE: Kinder Suprise. This was an experimental work for the 'scrambling' of the Darth Vader mask drawing (above). For Kinder Suprise, I drew a Kinder Surprise chocolate egg (using pencil), photographed it, then 'scrambled' it digitally.
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