for Visual Statement: The Art of Social Commentary

based off of "Samantha Brown Get Down! Get Down!" by Red Knife Lottery

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Model: Georgia Lloyd

In this piece, the impression i wanted to give is that this girl had just been date raped, with help from the date rape drug Rohypnol [Roofies]. Doing a teeny bit of research, i found that another name for 'Roofie' is 'Roach'. With this, i made a stencil [with the help of Adam Wellsfry, becasue i suck at that kind of stuff] of a cockroach. The main colors i wanted to focus on is White and Red. I chose someone with a lighter complexion and blonde hair to aid in the meaning. She is dressed in all white, and a teeny bit of pink in her bra to show the archetypal meaning of Innocence and Purity. using red, i wanted the focus to be on her smeared lipstick and the red roach in the corner; Red stands for Lust, Danger, and Destruction.
[i wanted red to overpower white becasue of the Destruction of her Purity and Innocence]
I wanted to give the photo a tint of yellow, to give a dramatic grungy/dirty effect. i can only imagine how someone would feel when first waking up from that.

i had a different image worked out in my head which i felt would have been better; but due to busy schedules i wasn't able to shoot at the location i was hoping to.