“Men are mortal. So are ideas. An Idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.”
B.R. Ambedkar
The photograph represents the slow death of the economy, this is portrayed by the content of the photograph, the dying Arum.
I have chosen to make the photographs start very large then slowly shrink until the last photograph is tiny. I have intended the first photograph to be viewed from a far distance making the photo a very open image to everyone and making people view it from further away as it is not disturbing. Though the smallest photo people must come very close to view it as it would be disturbing to look as from further away, just like it would be disturbing to not be able to see what is happening with the economy. I decided to make the sequence to to very very small as i believe when the economic crisis was at its worst it became very acknowledged and everyone viewed it very closely. This is why i have printed the last image very very small and had the sequence get smaller as people viewed the economy closer and closer as it became worse and worse.
I have presented the photographs unmounted and only taped to the wall to show the effects of the economic crisis. This showing the effects of the crisis salary-wise by not mounting the photos.
I decided to not have much content in the photograph as it could be distracting from the topic as the photo is trying to state a point rather than look pretty.
These photographs can be seen as alot of different things depending on the title embedded with the photograph. I have chosen to use this quote by this former Indian president to relate the photograph to the economic crisis. Without a title this photograph will just be seen as a photograph relating to death as the photograph itself is a dying Arum (Flower representing death). This photograph does some have some elements of death embedded in it but not so much physically.
