Some friends and I embarked on a small assignment – a submission of a 800×1000 image using a selection of stocks to create an image for the theme, nursery rhyme Ring a Ring o’ Rosie. An explanation of the myth can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_Ring_o%27_Roses
This is my entry:
- Rosie, We All Fall Down
100 word Rationale:
This image aimed to portray the dark interpretation of the nursery rhyme ‘Ring a Ring ‘o Rosie’.
It is also a representation of decaying childhood innocence as one learns of the concepts of life & death.
The image is based heavily on the myth that the rhyme is a description of the death by the plague.
The last line ‘We All Fall Down’ is a direct reference to death and thus is a feature of the image.
The rest of the rhyme is presented as the scattered, floating letters in the background, as a symbol
of the “innocent interpretation” fading away as one grows up to learn of death.
PS. Spot the dinosaur.
2 Comments
July 14, 2008 at 6:42 pm
I love it!
Really liking what you did to the paper, it looks even more burnt! I need to know your secret to that!
Did you use the bones randomly to make the red splatter? which i just thought… BLOOD?
Dino’s hiding in the shadows at the bottom?!!!?
July 15, 2008 at 1:21 am
hahaha, the burnt bit is half a brush, the other half is just the burn tool, I went a bit mental with it so i had to do it about 3 times – and the red stuff is another image i did YEARSSS ago with water colour – I noe, i noe, another bit i cheated on I guess, but yeah, it’s just a cut our of that image I drew before- you can still see the eye in the red because that was apart of the other image. And yes it was meant to represent blood or death to work with the child melting away in the black.
Ps. way to spoil it for everyone nik! =p