Assignment #5 Abstraction (FINAL PROJECT)

Photographic Research and Inquiry NON MAJORS

The following ART 21 piece ’Nocturne (White Poppies)’ was a response to the bombing of Afghanistan and the Opium Poppies as a source of violence. The artist Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle stated “I was interested in investigating the fact that the flower was not a natural creation. It was a cultural and an historical creation.” Opium Poppies are used in the creation of Heroin (and other narcotics).  The media is also being tackled as the news of war has become an object of consumerism. The Poppies are seen through night vision goggles (a tool in war) in an attempt to use art as a medium for awareness. Throughout the third world, suffering workers in poor economies are turning to the drug trade to survive. Governments are barely making a dent on a 400 billion dollar global business.

"Nocturne (White Poppies)"

by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

White Poppy Daydream-

Its midnight and the air is lit by gun fire

Try growing in American barbwire.

Heroin chic in burka attire.

Cumulus and mushroom clouds twist

Through the wind I hear my sisters resist

Crying as they're uprooted

Dreaming as we're looted

I'm just a flower that means good

when the rest of the world is up to no good. 

                                                                                           ©2013 Rajeh Alyami

Assignment #4 Motion & Sequence