RANKIN- DESTROY PROJECT

When youth music was celebrating their 70th birthday to mark this special occasion they asked photographer, Ranking to ask 70 musicians and visual artists to destroy their own portraits taken by Ranking to create their own art.

The concept of the project was to give young children the freedom to express themselves however they wanted.

 I choose to look at this photograph of Marianne Faithfull taken by photograph Rankin. In a collaborative project called 'Destroy' musicians have reinterpreted portraits of themselves taken by Rankin.The colours of the image are very simple with the original photograph being black and white and the striking red background on which it was placed.

I choose to look at this photograph as I really liked it's simplicity but then it has that edge because it's all teared. My first reaction to the work was that I would definitely like to recreate something inspired by this photograph. I also liked the meaning behind the work, which Faithfull stated that she wanted to represent her 'rough' patch she had when she was diagnosed with cancer. The photograph represents her world breaking around her and her not being able to do anything about it, as if nothing fitted into place, parts of her missing and she didn't understand why. The meaning behind it was quite deep and inspired me a lot. 

This piece of photography reminded me of the works of Lucas Simoes.

This is the work done by Lucas Simoes, and independent artist based in Sao Paulo. Not only this photograph, but his whole work entirely reminded me of Rankin's Destroy project. Simoes says that his intention is to alter the original meaning of an object or photograph and create something new and different. Which is what Rankin's Destroy project is about, altering whats already there.

Rankin Inspired:

These were my interpretations of Rankin's destroy project. There wasn't really in any method I guess I just thought of ways that I would like people to see me and the way I see myself. 

For the first image I decided to cut different sized stripes out of myself and jumble them up. This to me represented that I am very mixed person, and I don't always have my heart set on something straight away, I prefer to have options.

The second image, I tried to make my self look like a sugar skull, to that of a mexican tradition in which they have 'Dia de Los Muertos' which means 'The day of the dead'. I really like this concept that they honour the dead and that they don't look as death as something sad, but rather a day to honour and remember their loved ones who have passed.

The third photograph I ripped of my face and wrote 'POW' in the middle. This represents one of many things. Firstly being that I have a very short fuse and get angry quite quickly, secondly the jokey side of me. As I tried to imitate the writing of a comic book, giving it that cartoon like style.