Think Project

Since I went back to college (on the 9th of January) we have started a new project called the "Think Project". At the beginning we had to pick a word from a certain list which we could promote or protest against. I had no idea what to pick, so I randomly moved my finger across the word "coaster"... Possibly one of the most difficult words I could have picked but I thought that it would set me an interesting challenge. I then chose to protest against coasters because we were encouraged to do the most outrageous thing to be able to be more creative. I thought that promoting coasters would be boring because it would be the normal and easy path to go down. However, I wanted to challenge my creativity and thought of how to protest against my word/object. Without coasters, there would be stains of furniture and other surfaces around the house, so I chose to concentrate on the idea of coffee stains and rings from mugs. Thinking about how they can be artistic, add character to someone and add to the history of the object it stains. I then created a poster for my final piece...

This was my final piece. I quite like how it turned out, because I didn't use actual coffee/tea because I didn't have any at the time so I drew huge circles and painted over them in a coffee like colour, then I blew on the excess liquid to look like it had run across the surface. I then realised that I never mentioned 'coasters' anywhere within this piece, but hopefully people will get the message anyway...