Kaylie's Project One Ideas

Project One Ideas

For my project, the key issue I want to focus on is American health. More specifically, I would like to focus on the obesity epidemic in America. 

American obesity rates fascinate me. I would like to study the obesity rate and the major issues regarding it to create two composite images that detail some of the sources for the issue. Along with that, I want to address how if nothing is done to combat the issue, what America would look like.

 

I am thinking I want to focus on American icons/ landmarks to do this. 

In my first composite, I want to take The Statue of Liberty, maker her an obese figure, and play around with the scenery around her to enhance the severity of the issue. I’m thinking I’ll make her hold either a large soda, or maybe an ice-cream cone-instead of her torch. Then, I want to make the background seem destructive. I want to add fires on the city, smoke, lightening, dirty water and maybe a run-down, rusted Staten Island Ferry.

I think these features will depict how while obesity may not be largely inhibiting ordinary life now, it may have severe impact in the future.

In my second composite, I want to stick with the same idea of using a national monument to convey the severity of the obesity epidemic.  I want to use Mount Rushmore for this one. 

I plan on making each president’s face fuller. I want to add pieces of food to their mouths, double chins, sweat and full cheeks. On their faces, I want to keep all of this looking like stone, so it looks realistic. Toward to the bottom of the monument, I want to put junk food trash. I also want to put in cameras and monitors along the bottom and maybe even a conveyer belt with lounge chairs on it.

In the second idea, I want it to convey how obesity will affect mobility of America in the future. I want to highlight how Americans will be less active and depend on machines to do physical things for us- like physically going places and taking care of things.