[2014] Voice | Year 1 NTU School of Art, Design & Media (Foundation 2D Design II)
Objective: To create an artwork that combined image and text to convey your views, concerns or issues.
Title: Plastic is Fantastic
Date Produced: 17th March 2014
Medium: Digital, Photoshop
Artist Statement: My artwork explores the theme of how plastic surgery is fantastic. Plastic surgery is on the rise. The public chooses surgical methods over quick fixes that fail to deliver promised results. It has also been proven that beauty can be recreated. People are skin-deep. My work explores images overlapping each other. A human face is superimposed over a Barbie dollâs face to create depth and dimension to show that behind that pretty face, there is a Barbie, where people are driven by superficial needs. My work uses the digital medium. The title itself influences the finished artwork. The glossy textured paper and the shades of colours, together with the surgical knife, head towards a clinical yet glamorous feel.