Responding to an article.

Our task was to get a newspaper and then create an artistic responds from an article. I chose I quite disturbing article about a woman who's appealing to the minister of health in northern ireland to have an abortion because she recently discovered that her twins have the something called anencephaly. It is a disorder which means that embryos missing a major part of their brains and skull. Babies with this condition are usually stillborn or only survives a few hours after birth.

The article gave me a very angry, frustrating and disturbed reaction. And after doing some research on the subject and the disorder I almost changed my mind about doing a responds to this article. But it is something I feel really strongly about and I cant understand how similar cases to this can keep happening in Ireland before things change.

My method for this task was to first read the article and then gather more research. Then I wrote down the reactions, feelings and questions I got from it. After that I did a few thumbnail sketches to figure out my approach. I decided on a more abstract responds to highlight the fact how strange and illogical this whole thing is. I used colours and symbols which I felt appropriate to communicate my reaction.

The exercise was really interesting, especially to see everybody's different responds and approach. For the next class we were told to write an artistic statement about it.