Hey everyone! It's me, Riley, back again to talk about my thesis. As the title says, I'm finally making some decent progress on this, though there are a few snags here and there.
For those of you who don't know or just forgot, my thesis is about optimism vs pessimism and the worldwide need for balance between them. The piece itself is a six-foot-tall list of at least 40 overlapped pairs of words. In each pair, one word is a good thing, while the other word is a bad thing, and both words are the same length. For example, good/evil (4 letters), freedom/slavery (7 letters), and so on. This is so I can effectively overlap them by the letter - for good & evil, the letters would be overlapped like (G/E)(O/V)(O/I)(D/L) so each letter pair can share a piece of 8.5"x11" paper. Probably copy paper because it's cheap. The viewer would then don a pair of pink-green 3D glasses and have to choose which lens they want to look through. If they choose the pink lens, they can only see the good words, because the pink lens cancels out the pink letters. If they choose the green lens, they can only see the bad words, because the green lens cancels out the green letters.
I'm running into a bit of an issue, though. I'm doing this with prismacolor markers, and as much as I love the ease with blending the ink, they're not that great once they start drying out. And I'm not made of money, so I don't wanna have to keep buying new markers to keep a consistent shade. I was thinking about making this digital, but it would require a lot of printer ink... Any suggestions? Should I go digital, or should I just work with a different type of marker? Acrylic paint, maybe?
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