Joint Project

This is my final image for the joint project in conjunction with colleges in Kuwait and the U.S about cultural identity. I didn't want my image to communicate a really celebratory, patriotic view of life in Britain but conversely, I did not want to portray it in a overly negative way as I believe that there are alot of positive and negative aspects of life in Britain.
I therefore chose, for the subject, something quite trivial and small in the 50p piece, which to me personally, strongly symbolises 'Britishness' due to the issues with the preservation of our currency (and the wider issues which are related to this i.e membership of the European union) and the fact it carries the hugely recognisable iconic symbol of Britain- the Queen's head.
I wanted to make the drawing small to reflect the insignificance of the object in terms of size as well as to draw people in to my personal, subjective interpretation of cultural identity.

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