I love jumping spiders, and I also love sci-fi. So I decided to combine both for these three images. What I like about jumping spiders, besides being cute, is that they have so much personality in those four big eyes of theirs. So I decided to further humanize them by treating them as an alien species. They already look very alien to begin with! Perhaps the theory that life on Earth did begin in space when an asteroid impact brought life here, possibly explaining why these aliens look like Earth-creatures. Or we can pretend that jumping spiders never existed on Earth for the sake of this project.
Either way, I pretended to be a graphic designer for the SETI Institute (the Search for Extraterrestrial Life) after contact with these aliens became public news. SETI would be the most important organization in dealing with extraterrestrial life, after all. The third poster depicts a one of the possible ways some people could react to such an event.
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The creepy-cutest aliens ever!!! They've come from space, for our very tiny flies!!! Maybe you should make your second project movie about this..
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting how you changed the font of each images differently!
ReplyDeleteIn the first poster the aliens are arranged about their planet in a shape that resembles a strand of DNA. Whether intentional or not, that sends a cool message about the aliens potentially being of the same make-up as earth species! Perhaps you could work that into your second project!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy how clean and crisp you made this. The simplicity here certainly does not indicate lack of thought
ReplyDeleteGoing off Andrea's comment, simplicity sometimes entail more thought than saturation. Sometimes. It would indicate that the author of a piece wants you to see something specifically as opposed just 'everything'. I see that done here.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the meta-narrative going on here. It seems like a catalyst that could spawn another series of works if interest in the 'aliens' continue! Perhaps even project 2.
I would say that this form of 'imitation' or detournement has a wide following in art! Copying what exists and changing it, to create new meaning. While here it is effective, to continue doing so I would keep in mind subtleties that come up in imitating institutions (or governments) which put out this information. Balancing levels of 'creativity' per se and putting yourself in the shoes of a government paid graphic designer. I mention it as it is a form you seem interested in.
Creative project! (Post those questions!).