Outline of my idea, and where i might end up. (219 Words including 'I&A'

Where I gathered my inspiration and my idea was when we went to a trip too the Pitt Rivers Museum. My idea at the moment is a poacher trap, this is because when I saw this savage object it sprung many questions throughout my head, Some of them were 'Is this humane?' 'Is this to protect or ensure?' and 'Is this against human rights'. Another thing that intrigued me about this object is that when I first glanced at it I originally thought that it was a bear trap, But then I further looked into it and it turned out to be a poacher trap. This then sprung another question in my head 'Should the same trap that is used to capture bears be used on human beings?'

I think that this object will lead me towards and end up in human/animal rights. I think this because this poacher trap brings up so many questions about its humaneness and morales. I also think that this object will make me think more about human rights because of its savageness, this may then lead me onto slavery because when black ethnicity humans were slaves the white were treating them as if they were not human and were lower than whites so this subject could even branch off in many ways.

Memories BrainStorm

Claire Mcewan First version

My initial ideas development

My Initial ideas

Pictures from the pitt rivers museum

The Pitt Rivers museum

Me and my creative and media class went to the Pitt rivers History museum to create and look at memories, this trip was to try and create inspiration and get a better insight on human memories and history.

Our first task was to be split into small groups and seek out an object on the first floor on the museum, We had to determine the origin and the purpose of the object

Our next task was too look around the whole museum and find an object that inspired us and were interested in. This would have to be an object that we were mildly interested in but didn't have to be the main inspiration because we would be later able to branch off in different directions. The object that i chose was a poacher trap, this object interested me, this is because at first I thought that it was for bears, i thought this was inhumane for animals, but to be used for humans was unreal and sinister. A few other questions that sprung to mind was 'what is used now to counter poachers?' and it is a perfectly humane alarm witch just rings at a high level of decibels.

The rhetorical questions that have to be used with my initial ideas are, Should humans be hurt for poaching? Should Humans have the same preventions as animals ?.

Overall i did not think that the Pitt Rivers museum would be interesting at all, but i was surprised because I found the trip very interesting and inspirational and enjoyed it very much.

Meeting John Lockart Over Web cam.

Today in creative media today we met John Lockart over adobe connect. He gave us an insight on what he does.
What John Lockart does is being an artist and working in schools. A few points that he expressed was how he started off with an original idea then expands massively and sometimes his finished product does not come close to his original idea.
What he works in is digital media and physical media, the difference between these two medias is that digital is working with computers and physical is actually making objects.