Finally. At. Long. Freaking. Last. I can finally say that my thesis artwork is done. It's been changed so many times, beyond what any sane person would consider.
At this, the end of the project, my thesis artwork is in its final form. It's a series of three posters, five feet tall or so, and each of them is covered in stylized text in various fonts. There is some sort of box/bag/basket full of pink/green 3D glasses, for the viewer to look through. The viewer puts them on and notices that one word on each poster is actually two different words, overlaid on each other - one green, one pink. At this point, it would be some sort of instinct to close one eye, and therein, the viewer would be able to read each word. Depending on which eye the viewer chooses to close, the statements on each poster would say very different things:
1. The world is best viewed through the eyes of a dreamer/realist.
2. A person with few close friends is beloved/outcast by those who matter.
3. I will love/hate you first, but you can earn the opposite.
The color coding is consistent across the posters, so the row of five-foot-tall posters with optimistic/pessimistic phrases represents, in a way, the mindset of an optimist and a pessimist. Neither word is entirely invisible through the lenses, just as conflicting ideas are still present in people. An optimist would say the world is better viewed through the eyes of a dreamer, but they are still aware that one must be realistic about things in order to survive. Likewise, a pessimist would say it's better to see things realistically, though it's okay to have goals and dreams as well. But the conflicting ideas are faded, barely visible comparatively; by closing the other eye, looking through the other lens, the way other people see things, the viewer can observe and understand other people's perspective.
Also, because I'm the absolute trash garbage king, I made a pun. The optimistic words are written in green, and to cancel out the overlapping pink text, you have to look through the pink lens of the glasses. You have to look through rose-colored glasses.
