My final piece and some more progression that led up to developing the crowd personas. I realized I needed more movement and expression in this crowd compared to the subway crowd. I felt like the signs needed to be prominent as they were made and carried with such care along with the pink ‘pussy’ hats that were seen in clusters everywhere. I chose to make the sky as bleak as possible as that day was cold and gray with thin fog hazing over everything. There were strikingly stark bare trees lining the march pathways that loomed over the warm peaceful and bright crowd. I couldn’t help but think they were a slight overarching, creeping presence of the dark and cold administration that was being protested. At the last minute I put in some angular tree branches over the ‘fogged out’ tree to give a bit of contrast that had been lost. The monument stood tall and simple in the backdrop, a lot of marble and stone buildings that made me feel out of place and like a tourist, even though we were there to bond and fight for ideas and rights that should have felt like home.
