Becker_Mythmetaphor

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From left to right: 1. Jigar Brahmbhatt is the artist and the photo is from flickr. I chose this image because this is a similar to what I want to do with the city and the colors. I like the texture and the balance of colors how the image isn't just red, but also purples and blues. 2. ARTAVEER is the next artist from flickr. I like this image because of how the city and nature was combined in a very realistic and believable way. I also like the balance of colors and how under the city it looks like its burning and the nature is normal. I like the leading lines as well. 3. Jamie Mitchell is the artist and the image is from flickr. I liked this image for the texture that looks like steps coming down from the mountain This is similar to what I want to do to combine the city and nature harmoniously.

I find photos of nature to be beautiful and I have a lot of photos of nature so I wanted to incorporate that somehow. I decided to focus on a modern myth because I can relate to them better so I chose to interpret the myth that cracking your knuckles will give you arthritis. I then looked at it like cracking your knuckles is like breaking yourself down, just like the cities humanities is building is breaking down nature. I will need to have a lot of pictures of nature and of the city, and will probably use some of the pictures I have taken of the city along with some of the art I have made. I will also need a lot of images of different textures so that I can use them to layer to show crumbling and the breaking down of nature. I want to work with combining several images to create a dramatic other world life space, while remaining more realistic. I want to do this because I am very interested in nature and find it to be very beautiful. While I do also love the city, I can see how the city is slowly invading the natural environments and how people are leaving their marks in a negative way. I hope to learn a lot from this project. I will be combining everything that I have learned, I will be working with colors and textures, a lot of combining of images, and balance will be very important. My myth that I am working off of in the myth that cracking your knuckles will give you arthritis and this myth has been around for a while but has also been disproven for a while. I saw this myth and could relate to it because I crack my knuckles constantly, I wasn't going to use this as my myth originally, but when I decided that I want to use nature and the city as part of my project, I made the connection and found my idea for my project.

The website that I got information about my myth from: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/top-arthritis-myths/story?id=15510663