What is the concept behind your project?- The concept is to blend different featues from diferent hip hop artists to produce a whole new face.
Why does this particular subject matter interest you?-Many people have their favorite hip hop artists and it just interests me to see many of those artists put together in a certain way.
Describe, in detail, how you plan to communicate this concept visually.- I have a total of 24 rap artists, and thereare aproximately about 7-8 major features on a face. I will create 3 faces. The combination of artists will be based on their skin tones. I will then take features from each of them to form a completely different face that looks nothing like just one of the artists. Then under the faces, I will give the list of rap artists on each face, basically to make it like a guessing game of what features belong to who.
What types of images do you plan to appropriate? How will you borrow without violating copyright law?- I plan on taking the features from clear face shots of the artists. I will borrow without violating copyright law because I am taking small features from the pictures so that you will never quite know what the orginal picture looks like.
Which artists/thinkers/writers have influenced your ideas?- My over all influence is a picture of basically, a combination of hip hop artists Jay-Z and Kanye West. And also Nancy Burson, who almost morphs faces together to create new faces.
Sounds interesting! How do you think this idea fits into the project theme of a social critique or commentary? What will your piece communicate about hip-hop music or musicians? What message or mood are you trying to convey?
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