Costelloe-KuehnMemo33

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The image:

I will mix these images, drawing roots that rise up in each of the two characters and take on a tree shape. In the heart of each character/tree I will have a green circle that will connect to other green circles that form the graffiti flower on the wall. Thus the two characters (producer&consumer, artist&spectator) are connected through the image. I could also add the tree/rhizome overlay as a translucent book cover.

Things I like:


 * 1) Experimental media: graffiti is not immediately recognizable as "media." It's "old" media, not digital, but it only became this book cover through many other media flows. Few people have seen Banksy's art in person, but photographs of his work have proliferated over the internet, virally.
 * 2) Environmental: The urban setting is not usually what comes to mind. In my book I want to expand the word "environmental" way beyond images of forests and fields.
 * 3) Personally, I like the complexity and noisiness of the tree/rhizome overlay.
 * 4) I like that the artist is represented as part of the art (although some say that the artist is actually the construction worker...).
 * 5) Marc Nguy's images (he did an image for each paragraph of the 1st two chapters of 1,000 Plateaus) are a great example of art being used to help relay complex information. While this image is fairly simple, others are quite noisy and complex, reminiscient of the work by the Beehive Collective that are used as pedagogical aides for explaining neoliberalism, globalization, environmental justice, etc.

Anxieties: =
 * 1) Too much going on? Just stick with the Banksy art photograph? Tree/rhizome overlay requires explanation and book cover can't just "speak for itself?"
 * 2) I like the yellow road stripes veering and crawling up the wall and transforming into a flower, but it might signal a "back to nature" kind of argument, which is not what I'm going for...