2060 Week Two: Food

A FUN THING HAPPENED!

Our piece made it into the Metro good news feed! Somebody must have passed on their positive affirmation, the piece WORKED. IT WORKED.

So this week I moved to work with Lily on Food. We spoke about what we're interested in - she had the idea of making a 'water cafe'. In the future people will look for luxury in simple things - the same way hipsters ruined cereal. Maybe water will be scarce too, but we were looking more at ideas of luxury and food rather than environmental issues. 

We had a brainstorming session with tea and cake!

Decided that the advertising for our cafe should be slightly religious looking - like mannerist paintings. But with too many BIG smiles and people looking too damn happy for it to be real happiness:

 

We came up with this sketch (both drawing on the same page):

And Lily ~digitised~ it! 

We couldn't decide on colours so we tried a few different combinations:

This is what we ended up with:

We liked the acidic kind of pop colours, like an advert for a very sweet alcoholic drink that's kind of aimed at underage drinkers but not really. If you get me. It's an aspirational image, along the lines of those Got milk? adverts:

We made the piece by first projecting our design:

 And got to work drawing over the lines:

Then we took it outside to start painting! We were using spray cans for the first time, they're kind of awesome. Really fun to use, instant gratification. 

Wahey!

We hung it up on the big stage rigging! After trimming the bottom and nearly slicing my finger off. Here are some details:

Then for the water cafe part we served drinks - just £8.00 each! Bargain!

Yay! What fun!

2060 Week One: Community

Our group was the most positive group! We decided to split into two factions: one group would hand out positive affirmations to passers by - like Bible thumpers, but with less talk about hell - and the other would run some kind of workshop. The first group would push people towards the second.

I made the affirmations we handed out:

 

The reactions people had towards them were hilarious. One man did the sign of the cross - most likely superstitious about fortune telling - others were genuinely grateful and I think we made their day.

Kathy made our sandwich board signs:

They really made us stand out from the other groups, and gave us a nice uniform to wear - Ethan's lapels also made us look pseudo-militaristic - so we could always identify each other. 

Anna and Kate ran this workshop:

People were encouraged to draw positive things, I helped out a little bit - prompting people who looked a little lost. 

This is a little girl's drawing of her best friend, it was the cutest thing EVER.

Here's everybody being very positive and spreading joy to the people of Peckham. Afterwards we took the huge roll of paper to our studio: 

We started cutting it up into strips and Anna got to work making this kind of nest form:

In the end it looked awesome! Like a portal of positivity! 

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