Task 12: Ambition

A piece of my work that I would like to see enlarged and made more intricate would be the small elephant acrylic painting that I created in my manifesto zine. I would like to do a similar style to William Kentridgeā€™s ā€˜If We Ever Get To Heavenā€™ refugee premonition exhibition. He normally works smaller (i.e. 1m square pieces) and in various medias such as ink, collage and charcoal. However, this exhibition uses performance, film and silhouettes to tell a narrative. Large silhouettes of peopleā€™s heads are carried, with a brass band and background imagery, that was being developed for years and shown before the refugee crisis that dominated the news.

I would like to turn my painting of the elephant into a cardboard cut-out and film someone walking along with it, maybe also making silhouettes of trees and grass and make them move as if the elephant is trekking across miles of land. I would like to then show this in a dark room to immerse the viewer in the film. Then I would maybe start to make more and more silhouettes of animals and maybe show a narrative of animal migration as a narrative.

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