Put things back where they belong!

Put things back where they belong!

In my work I wanted to return the shark into the ocean, where it belongs. The human now is a visitor in the shark’s habitat. I wanted to show the human has to wear special equipment to survive in the ocean, and is just an observer. This is as apposed to the original image in which the man cruelly manipulates nature.

Remix by Yael Ginossar

Citation:  Photograph: Elliot Sudal
Retrieved July 17, 2013 from news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/07/130717-sandbar-shark-nantucket-elliot-sudal-surf-fishing/

No one wins

                                                       

My original drawing was one of beauty, peace and serenity. Most of us think we live in this world. Yet one only has to listen or see a news report to hear of violence and ugliness cast down upon us each day. Many preach peace only to have unrest and ugliness surround them. We are to help our neighbor, yet we don't. We are to be one nation, yet we divide ourselves by our differences. We say we want clean air and water for our children, yet we go one polluting our natural resources. When will it end? Who will end it?

 

Remix by Mary Beth Stevenson

Citation: English Home August 2012 issue 75

Interacting with Nature

"Interacting with Nature"

"Reclaimed Beauty"

"Interacting with Nature":
The recreated image is incorporating the fun children can have exploring their natural surroundings as close as their backyards.   Nature affords them the chance to interact with the elements through sight sound and touch (senses).  The interaction with nature has endless possibilities for exploration that's free and uninterrupted.

"Reclaiming Beauty":
The original image was taken from a magazine that illustrated gardening at its best and demonstrated to the viewer a finished redesigned backyard landscape.

Remix by Gayleen Warner

Citation:
Photographer: Matthew Benson
"Reclaimed Beauty " by Linda Askey
Taken from Better Homes and Garden pg. 105 April 2012 Edition

Love Life

              My original image depicted a laughing child being tossed in the air in the pool by her father's hands. She was at a backyard pool with a typical manicured lawn. I loved how joyous she seemed and that the title of the image was "Live Life," however the tame lawn was bothersome to me and I wanted to incorporate more organic nature into the image. The main theme I wanted to emphasize in my remixed image is how important it is that we give our children opportunities to fall in love with nature, and not immediately jump to teaching facts. I decided to make this child the center of my new image and surround her with different natural images. A huge tree, birch trees, the ocean, and purple flowers are found along side of her. I turned the circle "Oprah Magazine" logo in the top center of the page into a type of sun or crown around the child's head, because the sun is the source of energy for life and nature on our Earth! I left her father's hands visible because he is guiding her into the air, just as teachers we are guiding our students to love nature and the environment. The whole time I was working on this image I was wondering why the title was not "Love Life," so, in my new image, I cut out an "o" from a magazine and changed the title.

Remix by Annie Duffey

Citation: Oprah Magazine, pg. 25, August 2013

Sweet Dreams

The original image is of a man from Japan creating art with a water bottle filled with salt.  In Japanese culture salt symbolizes the transience of life and is used in funeral rituals.  The artist used this saltscape to honor his sister who passed at a young age.  The salt is later thrown into the ocean.  My hope and dreams for children is to have them see things in their own environment as art materials.  They can be everyday household items, or actual nature straight from mother earth.  I want them to understand that anything they create is art, even if it is not seen by the masses and is thrown back into the earth when they are done.  I dream of a world where children see art as a form of therapy and coping with events in their own lives.

Remix by Erin Miner

Citation: Reader's Digest, Artist: Motoi Yamamoto, May 2013 Page 147

It's not takeout or DiGiorno... It's homemade and it's delicious!

DiGiorno is pushing convenience even though their idea of convenience is the alternative to something that was already convenient.  

Convenience should not be main factor when choosing what to eat.

New option: cook meal at home from healthy, fresh ingredients.  

Time for people to start taking an interest in whats in their food, where it comes from, and actively preparing it.  

Remixed by

Citation: Retrieved from People Magazine, July 2009. p. 21.

Realism versus Idealism

I have selected this particular image from Montana state magazine (2013 Issue, pg. 78). I had some mixed feelings about the image from the very first glance. On one side, it has an absolutely beautiful view of the city – sunrays shining on the building, mountains towering over the city, and river flowing through the city. On the other side, empty roofs standout to me with their unpleasing bare sight. I believe that we can use that space more efficiently and enhance this image even more. I decided to add gardens to all of the buildings’ roofs. I also noticed a plastic bottle tucked away in hiker’s backpack and changed it to reusable water bottle. Finally, I wanted to add more realism to this image by adding a car filled with flowers and an image of woman’s legs wearing heals walking through the grass.

I enjoyed transforming this beautiful image into a more realistic representation of city, nature, and humans interacting in one environment.  

Remixed by

Citation:

Environmental Immersion

I was intrigued by the original image of this woman, finely dressed with a camera in the middle of the desert.  The image stood out to me because despite the wildness of the environment, the woman remained poised and seemingly unphased by her surroundings.  I chose to remix the image to make the woman more immersed in the environment by draping her with animals and plants.  In this remix I hope to awaken the public's understanding of the importance of not simply observing our ecological environments as something separate, but instead to view it as an essential, interconnected part of our make up as humans.  With that in mind we should physically integrate ourselves into our outdoor surroundings to better understand and embrace its significant, and consequently the need to preserve.

Remix by Ashley Bargende

Citation: Frame of Reference, Sophie Pera, Town & Country Magazine / 2013 / p. 106