The house of black and white
The house of black and white is the name of the temple of
the faceless men in Braavos. After watching the TV programme Game of Thrones I
was inspired this idea; to create a variety of many different expressive faces
with black and white on pixel art. The faceless men worship death and they
believe is the only true God. They assassinate specific targets whom they
believe are due death and their face should belong to the God of death. The
faceless men are highly skilled assassins and they can use those faces to their
benefit. They can hide in plain sight when they carry out their tasks and be of
a different face to avoid capture.
I find this art work very fascinating because not many
people think of death or dead faces as art. People in various cultures fear
death and that is why they are consumed by it. Many monotheistic or eastern
religions explore the possibility of life after death or the immortality of
soul, they base their theologies on their fear of death and people with limited
knowledge hang on this small chance to get a longer life. They are blameless of
course because life is beautiful and full of wonders to explore and learn from,
but I think the focus should be on how to improve life rather than live in a
fantasy. Having a meaningful life is more rewarding in my experience and should
be taught at a younger age. In my opinion death should be a celebration rather
than a tragedy, a celebration of a concluded meaningful life, productive and
has its mark on society and the loss of the physical body would mean so little
if people think more this way about death. Because I think the immortality of
the soul is very real when you after dying live through your children and they
survive through their children and so on. The only thing we have control over
after we die is how well you raise your children and what values you teach
them. There are many cultures who look positively to death, for instance In New
Orleans funerals are celebrated with music and dance along the way to the
cemetery and joyful music are played at the end.
This is my project idea; for the website I will have six
pieces of work that revolve around the different human face expressions that
are; Anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise (Paul Ekman in studying emotions and
their relation to facial expression). The plan is to try and design different
faces on pixel art that give that vibe of these six feelings. It is going to be
in black and white and every piece will contain a main black and white photos
of my friends in the middle and smaller faces with similar expression around it
that are done with pixel art. The smaller faces will look towards the middle
face and the smallest faces will look towards them. I will have to learn
Photoshop for this work because I am going to need it for editing the pictures
and copy pasting them.
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