The Last Supper Recreation | Similarity and Anomaly Approach
This is the final project I did for my Visual Communication subject in Year 1 Semester 3. The project was similarity and anomaly approach, meaning that we had to combine two different objects at the same time, convey the same meaning and function.
As for mine, I got my inspirations from observing how the world is like today and from the people around me. Several ideas were rejected until I was left a few, four sketches had the same focal point -- technology and phones. I then decided to go with the concept of phubbing, a habit that most of us have today, constantly looking down at our phones instead of engaging in to the people around us.
Fighting the urge to deliver the message of interacting with the people around us, I went for the concept of combining a box and a phone together.
Why box? You may ask. It is because box is a symbolism of isolation, in other words, shut in. A phone is a technology device which most of us often use as an isolation from others.
I put two together to fit in this similarity and anomaly approach project.
After that, I came out with four different scenarios of us phubbing. In public, on the dining table, in front of our loved ones, with friends and family. I even came out with the concept of different types of boxes to see which one is the one I should go for.
I was encouraged to go for phubbing during dinner and I was challenged to paint The Last Supper. Well, challenge accepted of course.
Different concepts of boxes and phones were attached on their heads to show us what we are facing today,
yet seem to be ignoring it.
Rabindranath Tagore once said,
"The furthest distance in the world,
Is not between life and death,
But when I stand in front of you,
Yet you don’t know that I love you."
It is time for us to look up from our phones and cherish the people around us, because life is too short for us to waste our time away by constantly looking down at our phones.
