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The Final designs of the sign after the class critique.
Documentation for my multimedia sculpture, “Boho Whimsical Soft Grunge Ophelia”.
“Boho Whimsical Soft Grunge Ophelia”
This sculpture critiques the romanticization of Ophelia’s mental illness and eventual suicide (from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”). This rampant glamorization and fixation on her beauty and purity is evident in pop culture as well as antiquated sources such as John Everett Millais’ “Ophelia”, painted in 1852. This sculpture presents the overwhelming amount of photos, music, and paintings that reference Ophelia simply for her beauty and romanticized tragedy, without paying attention to her mental illness. The montage of photos are overlaid with hashtags that originally accompanied the photos sourced from the website Tumblr, with three additions that did not appear in the tags: Mental Illness, Depression, and Suicide. These three tags were added to give a bite of contrast to the sappy tags that aid in reducing Ophelia’s character and erasing her mental illness. The choice to display the images in a rapid montage was to keep the viewer from fixating on one image for too long, as all the images are all, in essence, exactly the same. The sampled song is “Sweet Ophelia”, by Zella Day.
Documentation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01zrrl4Db3A Stand alone video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE0FlHPHWHo