Monday, 30 January 2012

Jenny Tran



Jenny Tran is a female cultural artist, who focuses on the deeper meanings of societies, creating work that influences social movements. An example of her inspirational work is the ‘Fabric of America’ piece.

In this piece, it’s initially an image of the American flag but with further analysis it becomes more apparent that patriotism is not the main idea. The image is made distorted with a scratch like effect on the flag base, disfiguring the original patriotic flag creating the idea rebellion, chaos and manic in the American society.  

This artwork translates various messages through certain aspects and features it holds. The scratch effect is not just a design element, but in fact quotes, found on random anonymous terrorist sites. The use of this aggressive design conveys Jennifer’s passion to let the public know about the major faults the American society holds, threatening the existing society.

The text imprinted in the artwork, “INTOLERANCE DESTROYS THE FABRIC OF AMERICA”, reveals another of Jennifer’s messages, linking with the terrorist quotes. She uses references between her design and text. An example of this is shown through the scratch effect on the fabric of the American flag, similarly related to the statement “destroys the fabric of America”. Jenny also tries to communicate a general message to her audience saying, if you try to go against each other it will “destroy the fabric” of reality as a nation.

Various techniques in media are used in this piece, one of them being photography in terms of the American flag. Another is the illustrative research where text is distorted and placed in different directions and positions (layered over images) using the Illustrator/Photoshop program.

This piece seems like it was made at a time of social chaos and manic in the American society. It could have been made near the times of 9/11, where terrorism was a major issue within the society, affecting the nation as a whole. I chose this artwork because it seemed to have an in depth design to it, communicating that there was more to it then met the eye. Moreover I had to include it in my blog for my Graphic design studies.

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