After some thought over the Christmas holidays, I decided to pick a novel to visually respond from; as it has previously played to my advantage in the way I work. As I fascinate over reading dystopian fiction, I thought it fit to choose within this category. It was a novel I had begun reading the previous year, but had become side-tracked for some reason, so I wanted to give it another chance as it seemed very relevant to my current state of mind in observation of society. I decided to work with and create visual responses from Aldous Huxley's classic, Brave New World.
Using this novel as a guide towards my outcome, I want to demonstrate how Brave New World is happening right now. Written in 1931, it tells of a future, very much similar to the current state of our contemporary world, where people are cloned and passion towards life has diminished; instead being overshadowed by seamless, superficial activities. Truth ceases to exist in the majority, and the majority ignore it without consciousness.
I want to make a series of visual responses in accordance to this novel, and perhaps others, to gain a better understanding of my own personal observations: my 'brave new world'.
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