{"id":981,"date":"2024-10-30T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=981"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:42:55","slug":"counter-culture-project-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"Counter culture project reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though I deviated from my original plans, I am still really pleased with the work I made for this project. I feel like I adapted well to limits put on me, whether it be access to equipment, time or budget. And I learnt a lot about my own studio practise, developing my technical skills along the way.<\/p>\n

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My end piece is a translation on the famous Bull of Wall Street and it is a commentary on the charging blind danger and madness of late stage capitalism. <\/div>\n
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I created the distorted bull image through a combination of photography, collage and digital editing. The use of collage and bitmap gives it a rebellious, visceral and punky quality. The original horns of the bull were swapped out for images of my own fingers and I think this works for two reasons. It brings humans into the dislogue of the piece very clearly. And it gives the bull a sordid disfigured quality. <\/div>\n
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My choice to print on multiple layers of transparent red celophane is a comment on the multi-layered nature of the issue and draws parallels with the horrors, both current and future, of mans destruction of nature; symbolized here as bull fighting, with the cheap flowing plastic resembling a matadors cape.<\/p>\n
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I am still not 100% certain how or where I will display the whole piece as an installation. A big part of me wants to create a sturdy frame for it and drop it in the business district of Nottingham, mirroring the guerilla art aspect of the original bull sculpture. A tutor suggested I run one up a flag pole and cycle around town, making a video piece, and I like that idea too.<\/div>\n
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I’ve also run off a bunch of these larger prints on newspaper print and want to use them to create street art, in relationship with the urban environment. Mainly smashed windows. Watch this space.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even though I deviated from my original plans, I am still really pleased with the work I made for this project. I feel like I adapted well to limits put on me, whether it be access to equipment, time or budget. And I learnt a lot about my own studio practise, developing my technical skills […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}