Critical Selfie Final Critical Statement

For this project, I explored one of the critical statements that we were given from the first project. For my final, I took 8 images sequencing with the narrative of -

 "Design should inspire people to see the world in a new way", and to what extent is graffiti socially acceptable, and socially noticeable? 

I explored the way we as human beings, don't usually pay attention to the little things whilst we are living our daily everyday lives. When it comes to graffiti or "bombing", we hardly notice it unless it's all colourful and fills up a whole wall. But how about the little stuff? The calligraphy that artist and taggers do when they want to make themselves known, to show that they are not afraid to prove to themselves and everyone else that they can tag. 

With my images, I explored streets and places in Wellington that go unnoticed, and graffitied it myself. Not actually physically do it but photoshopped it in. I wanted to show different areas that can be graffitied, and areas that usually wouldn't be graffitied that would be more noticeable. As you go through each photo, the graffiti gradually gets more noticeable, and socially unacceptable, as compared to the start where it's most likely socially acceptable, since it's hardly noticeable. By doing this, I explored a new way in seeing this world of graffiti, and to get people including myself to actually pay attention to the little things that are right in front of us. 

Also on that note, my haiku - 

"What cannot be seen,

Can sometimes be beautiful,

Or just wreck your day."

This sums up and backs up my narrative more but elaborating that we cannot see graffiti right in front of us, but when we do, we either think it's beautiful and a work of art in the calligraphy form, or ruin your day by knowing that's its ruining public property. In other words we ask ourselves, is this graffiti a form of activism, art or just plain vandalism? 

I'd also like to add that I graffitied my photos using the words from my haiku.