For our final piece, we were inspired by Jenny Holzer’s use of repetitive text, we repeated the sentences that we found on gravestones, we decided to use ones found from the internet instead of from the local area as this is a sensitive topic and didn’t want someone in the class to perhaps recognise one of the graves and become upset.

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We kept the text pieces black and white, this meant that our bright, Barbara Kruger style video would be able to be seen and also shows how China symbolises white as the colour of death and in Western countries it is black.

We displayed this video that Georgia had made onto the wall with the text on it.

The video contains real news headlines about death, flashing up in a quick, aggressive manor. This is supposed to force the viewer to see the headlines about death that normally they would just skip as it has become so normalised in the media.

At the side of our display we also had another display of black and white images of very old gravestones from Georgia’s local area of Fife. This was to further solidify the fact that real people have died.

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Overall, we were very happy with the result of this project and the message that it gave out.