Getting a foot in __ Luke Fennell

looking at many x letter forms for the piece, i want to creat an x with enda's face in the centre, constructed of the type of the speech and the continued speech surrounding him. either printed onto the x itself or onto campaign fliers and glued on.

the X - first

my first concept for this was based on x for xerox ... as in copy,
basing my copy on the speech enda kenny gave at the U.S. presidential visit. there he gave an almost identical speech to barack o boma's in 2008

Barack

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

Enda

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that Ireland is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our ancestors is alive in our time, who still questions our capacity to restore ourselves, reinvent ourselves and prosper, today is your answer.

The J - final piece

my main concept behind J for junkfood was the obesity leevels in ireland rising 300% in recent years tripling the stats 10 years ago. a topic which urgently needs discussing.

This progressed to what is my final piece. it originated from a stripping back of the junk food back to it's bare essentials. the sugars , the salts, the offal and greases. i wanted to show the sheer filth that makes it up. for this particular piece which was made 3 times due to bad handling and frigile breaking, i based the concept on how sugar and junk food is so neatly packaged. to show this the top of the j is constructed out of moulded acrylic and a clear plastic fizzy drink bottle. the contents are fine caster sugar and granulated sugar. the base is a 4 inch sewage pipe to show the waste that sugar is , the material spewing out is large crytalised sugar which i made. it tastes of cola bottle and is addictively delicious. in appearance it looks like dirty drain water and human waste.

The J - junk food continued

prototype of one piece, based on the bins that get destroyed in junk food on a night out ... a series of wrappers to be designed to be scattered around the bin, includes hybrids of generic fast food logos and j's.

possibly change the texture of this to more metallic rather than painting it.

The J- junkfood junkie

Mixing up junkfood with some of my junkie ideas .. after all we do become addicted to fast foods ... be it a lifestyle or through the additives such as MSG