Stencil Project

In a world where people are getting closer, sometimes they get too close. As is the myth of Icarus and his father's wax wings, when people get too close, they happen to burn and fall. This is a commentary on people getting too close to something that they desire, they don’t see the consequences that are going to befall them. People these days don’t listen to their closest friends about things that they definitely should. For instance, when a guy is getting too close to a girl, he is blinded to anything that could potentially be wrong with said person. Anyway, I basically thought that Icarus was a good choice as his folly is a good lesson for people to learn and to keep in mind when they are trying something new or getting close to other people. I usually wouldn’t think this would be a social problem, but these days there have been far too many people that I know that have gotten hurt from becoming too close with someone too quickly and can’t tell what exactly is going on with anything or anyone, and their friends are lost in it.

I came up with the idea when I was just sitting around thinking about how I’ve been trying to help friends out who have been having problems with significant others, that turn to shit right quick, and I feel bad trying to help, etc. So this is a cautionary piece saying “Don’t get too close, you’ll fall and perish.”

I chose the blue paper because it seemed like a more uplifting, sky themed color. I would have gone with yellow for the sun, but I thought that maybe making everything white would be a little more like they are clouds, and I think that is what people are feeling like when they are getting too close, they feel like they are on cloud 9 and nothing could hurt them. So the cloud-esque theme was definitely something I was going for, I just wasn’t sure how I could make the pieces stand out more bubbly, more cloudy. I sprayed it three different times and the one that I’ve posted is what I liked the best, I just did different prints from different angles and distances, and this one looks the best. The other ones are just… ridiculous.

Unfortunately if I were to have this somewhere, like on a shirt or on a wall or something, I don’t think anyone would really understand it. I mean, yeah, they would probably get the Icarus theme, but I’m not sure if people would understand that it’s a commentary on how people do get far too close. If I were far more artistic, I think I would be able to make a sun look kind of like a person, so it would signify that Icarus is not only getting too close to the sun, but he’s also getting far too close to a person and being blinded.