Brand Spanking New Media: HW7.4 Impact100 Project

For our project, Nina and I created an online ballot that allowed 100 people to vote on the specifications of our final work. The ballot allowed voters to decide the medium, color scheme, theme, orientation, size, number of works in the series, and the final method of presentation. Nina and I were inspired by the current political election and we wanted to see if the democratic process that we trust to decide the leaders of our country could also be trusted to create art. The results of the voting process are shown below:

Based on the winning options from the vote, the project is a series of 5 works created with pen and paper in warm color tones focusing on the theme of Radical Self Love. The works are 10inx10in squares and will be posted around NYC.

I find it interesting that within each category, there was very clear winner. Every winning option had at least a 12% lead on the next strongest competitor and the largest margin was 37%. The public had a clear majority opinion so I felt reassured that we were creating a work that would please the most people.

Nina and I used watercolors and pens to create washes in warm color tones and draw out phrases that inspired self love. We focused on ideas of inner strength and personal fortitude. Since the public had voted that the works would be displayed around NYC, we made each phrase address the viewer directly, hoping that strangers who saw the messages would be moved by them and develop their own self love. The dots and dashes that accompany the phrases are the words "self love" written in morse code.