Manifesto

For this project I was asked to To design personal manifesto of information based on aspirations and experiences.

Initially I was not very familiar with what a manifesto actually was, so I began by looking at on websites such as designspriation and pininterest to see how other artists had produced and visualised a manifesto.

I also researched the exact definition of a 'personal manifesto' in order to completely understand what I would need to do. 

"A personal manifesto is a declaration of your core values and beliefs, what you stand for, and how you intend to live your life. It functions both as a statement of principles and as a call to action. A personal manifesto can serve as all of the following: As a frame for your life."

Barbara Kruger was one of the artists I looked at, she is an American conceptual artist, The phrases in her works often include pronouns such as "you", "your", "I", "we", and "they", addressing cultural constructions of power, identity, and sexuality. 

To stick to the brief I chose to make my manifesto more about my personal life experiences, I found old photo's of myself, friends and family members and placed them into a grid. Then taking a bit of inspiration from Barbara Kruger I added a short and simple piece of text "Theres so much you don't even know"

The reason I chose to say this was to give people who may have only known me for a short period of time, more of an idea about me and my personal identity, also to imply that there's a lot of history and a lot more to find out.

I feel as if I could have been a lot more experimental with this piece, for example my use of pattern and colour could have been explored a huge amount more, in order to give the outcome a more meaningful and interesting visual aesthetic.