Take a few moments to really look and then reflect on this image. Write a response beginning with what you see and then what you feel from this performance still. Use descriptive language, and if you want you may create a story of what you imagine is happening.
Reminder, no class next week for President's Day.
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Im not clear on NONGRATA's purpose or meaning in the art world even prior to their lecture. The same could be said about the selcted image. However I do notice that they happen to be in Asia, most likely Korea, because we saw footage similiar to this in class that was set in Seoul. Anyways, Im willing to bet that this work is about immigration. The cellophane wrapped around the crawling bodies metaphorically representing stringent or limiting laws that restrain movement in and out of the country.
The performance is taking place outside in a town square of some sort. The people wrapped up looked to me like worms crawling around on the floor. It seemed as though the man was yelling and shouting directions. He represented some sort of authority figure. The wrapped up figures might represent people in jail and how confined and restricted they are. The man with the whip and megaphone might represent a jail guard. The image is very odd to me.
The setting can indicate that they’re in a downtown of a city perhaps somewhere in Asia. There are at least five people on the ground that are not wearing clothing, but are wrapped in plastic. They look trapped and unable to breathe as if they’re being punished. One guy standing is holding some type of whip in one hand and something else that he’s holding to his mouth. It appears like he is ordering the guys on the ground to do something - maybe crawl. Several spectators in the background were walking and not even looking. Then there is one audience taking a picture while another bystander next to him is just smiling - maybe trying to figure out what this odd-seeming display is all about.
I honestly do not get all of what the group is trying to say, but my take on this particular still shot of the performance is that they are protesting against several freedom/liberty issues. Like I mentioned earlier about appearing to be trapped, maybe they are demonstrating what people are feeling when all they can do is follow orders that are being force to them and not being able to say or do anything about it.
Nongrata's performance to me represents Communism;tyrants, mass murderers, empire-building aggressors, and insane economic thinkers. To me this picture looks like it is in the city of some North Korean city. If so, North Korea is one of the only three communist countries in the world today. Unlike United States modern Industrial Country , North Korea is not a free country. Men, women and innocent children are held, tortured and killed here in the 21st century. Further more, human experimentation is carried out on these living victims. This recent famine has killed an estimated 2.5 million people making it one of the worst state killers since Cambodia in 1970s! The failed policies of Kim Jong Il's tyrannical dictatorship are all to blame for North Korea's suffering people. This is why in Nongrata's perfomance still, the plastic bonded people crawling on the floor are symbolic of suffering, helplessness, and North Korea's people. The man with the whip and megaphone represent Kim Jong Il's genocidal dictatorship, authority, and unrelenting evil. Overall I think this performance art is to reprsent dictatorship and North Korea's communist country.
Andre Ward
So I don't really understand what messages Nongrata's preformances are trying to convey and my preception of them is problably far off from what is intended...
However, I can use some common sense I guess...
Theres obviously a guard with prisoners present & under his command. He shouts and uses a horn to strike fear in the prisoners. Im sure the location has a meaning but Im not sure what it is.Its somewhere in Asia. Reading from the other blogs it could be anything from immigration to dictatorship. The cellophane is an obvious restriction on the person crawling. They're trying to get away from the guard while he has a whip inflicting pain. Some have holes to breathe from while others seem not to. They remind me of mummies, so its kind of like the living dead in real life.
This is just my attempt to explain what I have no clue about.
I see people, most likely innocent people, being forced to do something they don’t want to do. I see people not being able to breathe. I see people being forced to crawl further and further away from what they believe in, striving, trying to save their lives, or maybe the lives of the people they love. I see an authority-figure shouting, pressuring, whipping. I feel force. I feel struggle. I feel torture. Agony. Pain.
Nongrata performances intrigue me. I feel as if no one can really explain what a performance signifies. How do you really explain art to a dead rabbit, and why is this so important? I don’t entirely understand what point they’re trying to send across in most of their performances. Mostly, I feel that they’re trying to promote liberalism. They express the feeling of being stripped of freedom. They’re also trying to expand the art world, and express art to those ignorant and uninformed of what true art is. Art is not merely something pretty to look at. Art is a method of expression.
Leana Freajah
Nongrata's performance seemed to be based on lifes restraints. They seemed to be trying to send a message that there will always be limitations no matter who or where you are. The figures seemed to be trying so hard to get from point a to point b, and even though they were in a town with people around, no one stopped to help them. This could reflect life itself because people are not always willing to lend a helping hand to a complete stranger.
The performance is hard for me to comprehend but yet is interesting and it makes you think. Also, there seemed to be a man yelling instructions to the people wrapped up but yet he would not help them. He perhaps was an authority figure of some sort. I don't completely understand Nongrata's work but it is interesting and I try to comprehend the message that is being given from each piece of work.
For me Nongrata's preformances is little bit strange. There is some people on the ground and wraped with plastic paper. Even they cant breathe but i think it can show us comminisum or kingdom style. Who can not control their life or all the time getting orders for their life. I think this is showing non freedom activity. Becouse there is guards next to them. So maybe they are criminals or they who dont care about the rules and they get punishment like this. i belive it shows non freedom kind of bird in cage lifestyle.
I see people wrapped up as if they are slaves of some sort. There is a man that seems to be yelling at them and directing them to do whatever he demands. I see a man in the background with a video camera recording the wrapped up people. The guy next to him is laughing for some reason. I feel that this image is very weird to be honest. Im not quite sure what they are portraying by wrapping people up and having some sort of guard yell at them. It could be several different things. I noticed by the background that the setting is somewhere in Asia. This image may portray the issue of slavery.
I honestly do not understand quite what Nongrata's purpose was. I think that the people on the ground wrapped up in the plastic represent a group of people that have no freedomn, or limited freedomn. The guy that stands behind them I think represents a person of power, such as a dictator. This shot looks like it was shot in a city in Asia.
-Matt
do we have a midterm that im not aware of?
This performance is something very strange to me. I see humans being wrapped up and forced to crawl around by a very angry man. The men on the ground wrapped up may symbolize men being confined to one lifestyle and having The Man dictate what your life will be. These "worms" are unable to breathe, move, see and feel life in its entirety.
This was a very odd piece of art and im still a bit confused by it!
~Samantha Fritzsche
no midterm exam this week.
I can reflect on what I see but the meaning behind this performance still is beyond me. The image shows men wrapped from head to toe in saran wrap with just enough opening for them to breathe. I also noticed a man wearing a german hat with only one sleeve and a red glove which he uses to hold what seems to be a whip. In the other hand he holds a horn to his mouth and seems to be shouting at the men on the ground. If I had to try peice together this performance I would say it has a lot to do with the dictatorship and the restaints on man in that particular country.
I have been thinking a lot over the past week or so and I don't get it. My best analysis of this performance is that they were making a statement on jibberish by using nonsense. I understand that as an artist they didn't want to hand feed anybody the message, but to understand what was going on I feel like the onlookers need more perspective.
As for the still taken from the performance I would say it was obviously a commentary on the Biggie and 2Pac situation.The man in the background is, in my opinion, like Suge Knight. He is yelling authoritatively which make me believe that he is some sort of authority figure. The people "rapped" in the ciran wrap are obviously rappers caught in the game trying to get away. Neither of these men themselves resorted to violence, because they were in the public eye, much like these performers. That is why I would say this is obviously a metaphor for Biggie and Pac.
I am intrigued by the NonGrata still as I was by the live performance in Hyde Park. NonGrata's art form is interesting because it is not typical, and is meant to shock and make people think. It is memorable because it is so different. I have two entirely different interpretations of the picture of people wrapped in plastic. My immediate impression is that this still shows people emerging from their mother's womb...they are naked, safe and secure from the outside world, but their hands and faces are slowly emerging from that security. My second impression is that the plastic wrapped people are being imprisoned, that they are being punished, or have lost their freedoms, and are being made to suffer publicly.
-Caitlin Brody
The Nongrata performance was performed in the middle of the streets, and there are people wrapped in plasic. They look like worms following each other, with a man screaming. For me, this performance symbolizes weakness of a person.
As you can see, the people who are wrapped in plastic are in a line, to me that makes it seem like society wants you to go one way in life. The man is screaming, showing them the way of life.
The reason i say weakness of a person, because everybody has a different way of life, who is a person to tell you how to live your life. You can take advice from whoever on how to live your life; You can accept it, or not, but whatever route you decide to take, that is what makes a person strong.
Be your own person, pick the way of life you want to live and live it to the fullest.
What is happening in this picture is a bunch of people are wrapped in syran wrap and are racing on thier stomachs down a brick road for some unknown reward. To help them along, there are these huge sudomasicists in black leather thongs with huge leather whips walking behind them leting them feel the sting of encouragement. The only thing i cant think is that this os some kind of wierd bondage seramony where the dominant leahter pushers get there jollys off from whiping dudes wraped in syran wrap doing the worm down the street. This could also be some sort of public art, who knows.
I believe Nongrata’s art representation is an ideology, Confrontation and Political Self-Awareness against governments.In this particular picture the group focuses on social justice; because, the citizens of North Korea has been living under a communist government for a long time. The man with the whip represents the communist government which is always telling the citizens what to do; the human’s bodies wrapped with plastic it is just a representation of the pain, frustration and fear of a country living under an anarchy government.
I'm not really sure what to think of this image, and the NONGRATA whole experience. The picture entails naked people wrapped in cellophane, maybe to mean they feel confined in their lives. They are squiggling around like worms while a man blares a megaphone. They were given direction, but can't go far. I can't really explain what I don't undestand. It was very different and strange.
At first glance I see a few people wrapped in cellophane and rolling around on the ground. What I feel from this performance now is a splitting head ache. The constant yelling, squealing, and air horns during the “performance” makes me extremely happy I did not attend class hung over. There is obviously some kind of meaning behind this performance but I am at a complete loss at what that may be. Perhaps the NONGRATA group sits back, sips a little absinth, and decides what to do for their next performance. The time I spent in class watching these performances is one hour and forty minutes I will never get back.
Dan
NONGRATA'S purpose and meaning is not clear to me. To be honest I didn't understand what anything represented at all.
Here is my attempt to understand something I feel I know nothing about... the setting was in a town square of some sort (Asia?) with humans wrapped in cellophane. The constant horn throught this performance made me want them to stop, and it was frustrating to me that the noise was constant and loud. It looked as though the wrapped people wanted to escape from the breathless wrap they were engaged in. I found myself questioning what was going on and trying to understand the meaning. To me, it was people of a lower class, sufficated by authority, while authoirty was trying to tell them to keep moving they were still restrained and it was difficult. Yet the individuls wrapped kept moving. They couldn't help eachother. They were naked which for me shows they were stripped of their rights as humans (or maybe never had any to begin with?)
Whatever this does represent, maybe something different to everyone, or maybe everyone is suppose to get something different out of it, I know for sure I wouldnt want to be whatever the celophane wrapped people represent.
I have to agree with the people who are slightly... offset by the photo of the performance because I have never been good at diagnosing the "fine" arts or political art. To me, it looks as if they are in a town square or even a park in the middle of town somewhere. As for the content, I agree with some of the others.
Being that it looks similar to some of the videos we saw when they were here, it can be deduced that this is a performance in Korea that is political in nature. The man standing with what looks like a whip I don't think fully represents a guard but the oppressive, constricting government. The fact that he's standing and free puts him in control. The other people, wrapped in cellophane are stripped yet held by their government, forced to move in only a single and controlled way. If you want to take it a bit further than that, you could easily say that perhaps they are the crawling worms of the government, the pawns they use to achieve their own means. It also looks like they are crawling around that small dome and it could signify further that they are not only being controlled in their form and movement, but how they reach their destination.
I am not sure what I actually feel about it. These performances, including this still, give me the same eerie feeling I had when I watched Silent Hill in theaters two years ago. It's not outwardly scary but it's creepy in a way that unnerves me. The movements of the people when they were wrapped in the cellophane just seemed so haunting and, dare I say, completely unnatural.
-Jessica Montgomery
Just like everyone else, this demonstration of art and its meaning is lost to me. Just having lost my grandmother yesterday, I am in a very bad place and I fear that my interpretation is going to be a dark one.
I unfortunately do not have any political knowledge about Korea, therefore part of it may be beyond me. I see either naked or almost naked people wrapped tightly in cellophane. These individuals are crawling around on a dirty street and being yelled at by a man. The wrapped people are wiggling and moving, but where and why? Are the Korean police there to watch and make sure that it doesn't get dangerous, or are they a part of the meaning (if there indeed is one)?
My feelings behind this are hard to describe, but I will try. In this momment I fell like the wrapped up people, naked and vulnerable while some strong alpha male is yelling at me to go somewhere fast and I can't. I'm having to take care of my mother that already has problems, so I feel like I have absolutely no control over my own life. Everyone is telling me to be strong and take care of my her, but it's very hard. Does NONGRATA'S symbolism have anything to do with vulnerability? If so, then I understand.
Well just like everyone else has said already this photo probably takes place in some aisian country in an intersection or something. Nongrata is certainly an experienced group of performers. My best guess as to what is taking place in this picture is a representation of a lack of freedom in whatever country they were in. The people in the plastic wriggling around on the floor probably represent the individuals who have no freedoms. I dont understand everything in Nongratas performances, but I think thats the point of some of it. I think the fact that your confused and have no clue who these people are make you want to ask questions and figure things out.
Grant
If I recall correctly, this performance was done in South Korea as part of a protest. To me it symbolizes communist countries in that the government has so much control over the citizens.
The man walking around with the whip is the communist leader, he walks around freely because he is above his own law. He gives commands to the citizens "squirming" their way through life as this dictator commands and pressures them to no end. The citizens squirm because they are poor and weak, they can do nothing against this "free" dictator commanding them. I believe it to be a protest against North Korea and other communist countries.
Nongrata is a group of weird people tryin to discribe art in unlikely weird ways.... What I see in this picture is some wrapped up people like mummies, the leader, some people laughin and recording the event somewere in Asia. If I just happened to walk up to this "art show" I would bust out laughin too, at the people who enjoy being wrapped up and whipped by some nazi while people watch. All of Nongrata's shows were unfamiliar and unattractive in my opinion. I believe that these people take some crazy drugs and perfrom for fun because I doubt they are able to make a living out of their hobbie.
This image just seems odd to me. All I see is some people wraped in plastic with a guy yelling at them. The people are naked and crawling on the ground. To me, this represents a rebirthing of some sort. I remember in the video that those people never said a word and the guy who was shouting just kept shouting the same word over and over again as if we would here the word "push" over and over again while a mother was giving birth. However we see no mother, so this rebirthing is just metaphorically new beginnings.
When I first saw this picture, the first thought that came to my mind was one of those scary movies where you have some serious messed up people who go around and kidnapping other humans and use them for what they feel is normal. This picture really freaked me out, I felt like the bodies being tapped and confined to that area and space and the only way to move was by crawling slowly it was really out of the norm and for them to have this presentation out in what seems to be like a open area in a city where people can look freely was a statement that I am not sure about. I do believe that they were trying to show the people of that country another side to what was going on in that time period. But like I said at first glance I was taken back by what they had done and sometimes people don’t understand the full meanings of what they have been told or have read, but to see it in a visual perspective they become emotionally attached and may change their way of thinking or acting.
When I look at this performance, I see many things. The first thing, besides the people on the ground, that i noticed, was the man with the whip. It seems that he is slave driver, trying to keep these people on the ground. The people are wrapped in celophane wich represents thier smothered lives, unable to stand or break free from the opressions of slavery. However, at the edge of the photo, one of the people in celophane has his hands coming free, next to his mouth. While this may just simply be a breathing hole, this could also be symbolic of the beginings of some kind of revolution-- somebody finally trying, little by little to break free.
The fact that they are in Asia could be representative of the oppression that many of the people there experience, and specifically in china, the allowance of free trade has been increasing, which could be symbolized by th slow change in the man with his hands and face outside of the celophane.
There is a lot that can be said or interpretted by this picture of NONGRATA's performance. I understand they are a performance art group that focus on serious governmental issues around the world. By looking at this picture of the people wrapped in plastic trying to get around while someone else, who appears more dominating walks around with a whip yelling. Due to the apparent location of an Asian city, without seeing the performance first hand i would have to say it was representing the the strict Asian governments and dictatorships that run the countries in that area. Where every one is trapped and forced into doing what the government says or wants them to do.
As many others have said, it looks as though the naked people have wrapped their bodies to represent restraint and strict dictatorship. The message I got from the preformers when they talked, though, was that they really didn't want their art work interpreted which really confused me and made me feel that maybe there really wasn't a meaning behind it. But if i was to try and interpret this I would say it was a protest against rules and accepted standards.
-Christina Gonzalez
Im not sure what to think of NONGRATA's style of art. To me it was just alot of pointless noise and movement.They wouldnt even explain exaclty what they were doing so I have no idea what to think of that. As for the image I dont know what it represents either, but the first thought that came to my mind about it was that it looks like the suran wrap represents society. The people beinged wrapped in the suran wrap must represent poeple being wrapped up in society. The man in the background coould be representing government. So the image is in my perspective people being blindly lead by the government while wrapped up in society.
This performance is taking place in Korea and has people wraped in plastic crawling around. There is also a guy with a megaphone yelling certain things and has some kind of stick or whip also. I don't know what NONGRATA was trying to get out of this performance or their intentions but it is unique and interesting. They might be protesting about certain laws or actions the government has taken and want reform. It looks like the people wrapped are withheld and can't do certain things or go places. The person with the whip is the suppressor. They people in the background seem not to really care about what is going and only a few are actually watching. I know NONGRATA is not trying to do their performances for money or self appreciation but to convey a point and make art what it should be.
Probably most everyone wrote about what we already know about this piece meaning that we already know that it represents dictatorship in government and so on. Putting all that aside i remember what i first thought about this piece before i knew the meaning behide it. Seeing the men wrapped in plastic, inching their way around blindly confused me, a lot. When I was standing their watching the video I was thinking what does this mean? My own taking before the history lesson, was that the men represented immigrants being discriminated against by society. I took in the sound of the whip to be the confusing advice they receive from fellow peers and officials.
The fact that the men are blindly following the sound of the whip highly reminds me of circles we run into in our daily lives wether it be on the phone being transfered twenty times or going around in circles when given wrong directions. Non Grata definately has a unique way of performing art. It was not something I took to right away but to me it is interesting and a mind catching approach on art. I have since then done a little research on my own and will continue to do so because although you are confused at first it does make sense when you learn about it. I am always about things that interest me and Non Grata is one of them.
Let me start off by saying that NONGRATA is wild and amzing. I think that art needs somthing like this to stir things up and that is exactly what they do. I do not understand the picture at all and after asking a bunch of questions in class, i feel that the actual artist does not even totally understand what is going on. From what i can see, it looks like people are in the struggle to move. They are trying their hardest to move and still they are being forced by a man with a whip to move faster. It is almost like their hardest is not hard enough. the picture made me feel weird and at the same time kinda bad. i felt sorry for the people on the ground and at the same time i was mad that they did not just rip out and run away.
I have no idea what to think of NONGRATA's performances, after reading everyones blogging the general consenses is something about dictatorships or prisoners, i think ill go a diffrent route. In my eyes this could be about life itself, how a person has to make it through hardships in life, school, work ect.. the man with the horn could be everything that is hard in life beating away at the ones in plastic. the ones in plastic could be symbolic of caccons, thats what i think of at least. it reminded me of that when the ones in plastic emerged at the end of some of the performances. so maybe it is about dictators maybe its about growing up and makin it though life to be the individual you are today. i cant say for sure which it is, or if its even one of those two at all, and thats what i think NONGRATA wants it to be, something that each person has a diffrent take on.
~David Hodges
It is unclear to me what NONGRATA'S meaning for this performance is. It seems that they are trying to portray a type of restraint. The man walking beside them looks like he has a whip or some kind of club in his hand portraying him as a guard. NONAGRATA may also be trying to portray the people of a country that are under a harh oppression by tyrant goverment.
This performance art by NONGRATA is definitely unique and original. I think the goal of their art, including this presentation, is to leave an influence on the subconscience level. This type of display is too far from conventional and cultural thoughts, therefore leads to my guess on what their goal is. Now then, from what I've seen, I cannot make any good describtion on their art other than what appears to be a representation of government control. The worms could be representing the citizens of the government while the person yelling orders represents a strict leader. That's what I have collected on the conscience level, imagine what else I could have collected without my knowledge!
-Edgar Soto
The purpose of NONGRATA's work is not very clear to me. After hearing their opinions of their work I realize that the meaning is not as important to them as how the work makes people feel. I really like unusual artwork that makes people think, but in my opinion, NONGRATA takes this a bit too far. Some of the performances were too shocking for my taste. Most of their performances left me with an unsettling feeling, almost disgust.
This image appears to be from a performance in an Asian country. As I stated earlier, I am not sure of the meaning they are trying to portray but it appears to be about a struggle of some sort. The fact that they are wrapped in plastic reminds me of snakes or worms. I definitely have an appreciation for their art but it is certainly not my favorite.
I have no clue what NONGRATA means on any of there work. As I look at the picture that was posted all I see is a couple of guys wrapped up in platic wrap crawing on the ground. Maybe they want to look like worms. I am not really sure. I never thought that the work they did was art. I always thoughts that it was just weird people acting funny. I think that because of the culture diffences I dont get it.
kelly hayes
I believe (though i'm probably wrong) that NONGRATA is trying to demonstrate the restraints of government on everyday society. I think that this demonstration, which I believe took place on the streets of South Korea, is trying to show the average citizen being cocooned and controlled by government. The cellophane wrapped tightly around the bodies is designed to show how tight and suffocating the governments rules are. The man yelling at them is the example of government and they move as quickly and as much as the voice (government) tells them to. This makes it a controlled society with no real freedom in the true sense of the word. Like I said before though, I'm probably wrong.
I am not really sure if NONGRATA's form of art is completely appropriate or easy to understand. The image is people wrapped up in cellophane apparently crawling around on the street. I remember from the video a person barking orders at them, through a megaphone, which makes me believe this is a political statement. I think they are trying to demonstrate the overwhelming power of government over society. I believe the people who are wrapped in cellophane are the country's citizens, who are restrained to doing nothing else but blindly follow what the government is saying. They are prisoners to their own government.
Looking at the NONGRATA photographs makes me think people are being tortured. I really don’t have much to say about this photograph, but what I can say is, my opinion about the video/performance that was shown in class is sickening.
Especially on that specific performance were there’s a lady standing on top of another person, with breast balloons filled with milk or some kind of liquid, And two other guys drinking and spiting it out. There were other several performances I didn’t like. I found no meaning to them. I don’t see this as Art. I wouldn’t want my son or any other child seeing this performance.
To me, I don't really understand NONGRATA's performance. I didn't understand the meaning behind it and why they were doing what they did. But from this performace still, I see people being forced to crawl away from something and are very tightly wrapped in plastic. The performance seems very interesting but only if I was able to get the meaning behind it and why the men were wrapped up. Overall, it was nice to see their performances.
Did anybody see the movie Booty Call, starring Jamie Foxx and Tommie Davidson? If you have then you know what this picture reminds me of. I don't think thats where they came up with this idea or they were doing anything similar to what was happening in the movie, but thats what went through my mind. I don't know what NONGRATA'S art is all about but they seem to enjoy making it and are successfully doing so. To me that's all that matters.
This image is eyecatching and unique because of the events taking place within it. The bodies wrapped up could symbolize the fact that it's getting harder to breathe in our environments; especially with global warming getting more and more prevalent daily. The man behind them looks as if he has some sort of weapon or whip, which could also symbolize in coalition with the celophaned bodies that no one will ever be completely free on earth. The civillians seem to see it as a joke or parody not seeming to think that a public performance such as this had a meaning. It also reminds me of a horror movie i once saw...
-brandonbristol
I have no idea what they are trying to portray. I see some people wrapped up in plastic and a ring leader likely directing the scene. I don't get NONGRATA. None of their work stirs up any emotion other then annoyance. I think many of their performances are pointless. That is not to say that the actors or as they call themselves "artists" do not have a point to their presentation...I am sure they do...but it is completely lost on me. Then when asked in class "what are you guys doing?" they reply with thats what your supposed to figure out. I am not sure if I agree with this that we should be left to make a conclusion for oursleves, because honestly, in my opinion, none of their performances made any sense at all to me, and it looked like a bunch of drunk people randomly creating weird scenes close to each other, but not together.
I do appreciate their devotion to their art, you won't find me in Asia rolling around naked on the street.
If I had to write what I think these people are doing in this still it would be short and to the point. The plastic wrapped bodies and representing sperm trying to find an egg to create life. Is that what they are saying? I sure don't know.
In conclusion I thank the artists for coming into class and giving their presentation. Maybe in person their art is more appealing and easy to interpret, but in film and stills it is just too random to make any sense of it.
When I look at this image, several things catch my attention. The bystanders are photographing as the man is screaming and people are obviously suffering (at least they are demonstating suffering) but people are not trying to help. They are watching, but not doing anything outside of their normal lives but taking pictues.
The first few things that come to mind are; One, there should be a Pink Floyd song playing. Two, Is he a slave driver? And three, the saran wrap and the fact that they are face down makes me think that they have no individual identities, they have no freedom. They are being herded in a specific direction. It’s very dark and dreary. It’s sad and depressing. I makes me feel hopeless.
I am not to certain how to interpret this photograph. It is unique. My thought is that the people wrapped up and crawling on the ground are prisoners and the man yelling is the guard. It may symbolize that the prisoners are being punished for there crimes by not having freedom. Poisoned in a small cell, not being able to breathe the fresh air outside, always chained. This is my view on this photograph. This is very interesting.
Amber Cavender
To me this is crazy and find it really weird. I'll say i can see the art in this but to me its weird. I see it as people trapped in a society forced to live in a certain way, (there fore the saran wrap) which does happen in certain places so its not as bogus as i first thought.
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