Thursday, 7 November 2013

Jeff Soto; Telephone Poles – Abu Ghraib (2008.)

Another one of Soto’s works, that I feel inspire me, is “Telephone Poles – Abu Ghraib,” for a number of reasons.
The concept of this illustration, I feel, is to focus on a number of underlying messages that cause controversy around the world, and still manage to possibly associate itself with a well-known children’s story “Peter Pan.” I feel as though I could take this subject of children’s storied and relate them to problems around the world, related to religion, terrorism, money and social views on other cultures.

The style of the illustration is rather miss-matched in my opinion; a cluster of images all done rather differently to Soto’s other work. It gives off a strong feel of confusion, obviously related to both religious and political views which would explain some inner conflict between morals and duty. I feel as though this could give me insight into how to include and incorporate other images into my pieces of work, without simply placing them around or next to the main character or center piece. This would also allow me to fill up my pages of work rather than giving them a simple background, which would make my work look a lot more professional and effective.

 I also feel that I could be inspired by his work because of the way he lines his work: he almost does the exact opposite to what I normally do and has very sketchy and disjointed lines to outline his work. This gives off the feeling of anger or quickness, which can make the image look vastly more effective than having clean and flowing lines, especially for the subject that I think the image is meant to depict. It would also help the time scale and development of my ideas, as it would save me time on outlining my work and would give me a better chance to concentrate on my colour scale, as I have trouble deciding on a typical colour palette, while my drawings are lined in simple black.

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