Recently, i have been continuing with issues to do with my identity and this world. I am still struggling with issues to do with exactly how to depict this idea, however, i finally think that i have found a way to successfully do this, and i think it has been the best idea yet.
What i am focusing on are some relatively large pictures focusing things that ar, to me, inherently American. In the photographs, i am also shown standing looking at a construction or scenario that says 'America' to me. With these photographs, i alter the color scheme to match what looks inherently Kenyan in color and placement of color. The photographs then will somehow have an overlay of something like dirt on glass, that sits in front of the photograph. The viewer will interact with the dirt, and move it, pushing it away to see the image behind the photograph. In doing this however, the viewer is interacting with what matters in the piece to get to the imagery that doesn't matter in my concept.
I also have had thoughts of printing very vague images onto the glass as well, of something that is Kenyan and reminds me of Kenya, therefore the viewer is looking through the important to get to the normal and unimportant.
The photograph above shows what one of the photographs might look like. I am standing facing this huge monumentous imagery of America, and over this photograph, there would be glass, possibly with a photograph lightly printed onto it, or some dirt that the viewer has to react with, or both.
