The pixel resistence

For this project, I wanted to explore immigration, specifically deportation, and the kids who get misplaced in the process of losing their parents. Initially, I wanted to do three images taken from the internet of real pictures of a kid in the detention centers (which look like prisons/cages) that they put them in, a picture of someone getting detained by ice, and an image of someone getting taken away from their family. However, instead of the last idea, I decided to make the last one a scene of the two characters (a young girl and her father) in the previous two renditions and portray them as a small family of two sitting on the couch. It was essential to add this neutral scene because it shows them as regular people doing something mundane, unaware of the tragedy that would await them in the pictures shown next to it. Also, because I made the characters on Blender, they did end up looking like toys within the dollhouse display I had up for the show, and that made me proud because I was nervous that people wouldn’t think they looked like figures. Because I combined this project with my independent study project, you got to see something that did tie in. I feel like most people understood the concept and how we see these issues as something that doesn’t exist. It was essential to me that I model the figures like toys. Still, when it came time to add the details within the living room scene, I decided to add a picture of my family because although this doesn’t affect us to the extent of other families, it is still an active and personal matter.