Finally got some time to do some work. Excited and pumped, got my images, got my music, got my materials and ready to rock and roll. At the moment I have been looking at cigarette packets and their layout as well as its obvious references to consumer culture as well as mass production.
"..We live in a world of representations, wherein our societies, other people, even our own identities, are continually constructed, negotiated and played back to us through a range of representational systems. The task of the artist is to interrupt the flow of representations, to diagnose and to reveal its mechanisms, and thereby play a part in liberating people (ourselves included) from a range of institutions - tangible and intangible - which increasingly control our lives." (Italics mine)
I'ts also a personal problem in the sense that it somehow affects us in an emotional and instinctive way. I recently was involved in a sales company and the thing that struck me the most out of all the things said during training was that it was important to "build up a need" for said product. I quit the next day.
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