For this assignment, we are required to create a piece of visual artwork that depicts the concept of an “aquarium”. We are to use our imagination as much as possible to translate the aquarium viewing experience into an exciting narrative that would appease to the audience’s senses. 

My initial thoughts about the Idea of an Aquarium is that the life of a fish which is either of freedom or being trapped in the aquarium. In terms of freedom, the fish is able to do whatever it wants in the aquarium as it is alone in an aquarium, in other words, it has the entire aquarium all to itself. Conversely, I thought of how a fish life can be reflected in a way that it is trapped and contained in a fish tank and that it may never be able to get out of this fish tank his whole life. 

 

I will make a shadow box to execute my version of the aquarium. 

 

The idea is that there is a young man sitting down obsess with the phone (Figure 1), and when you shine the torch light from the back (Figure 2), you will see the young man being replaced by the old man, holding a walking stick, with the roots growing from beneath him while the cobwebs are formed around him, still obsess with his phone.

 

This is to emphasize on how obsess people are nowadays on their gadgets until they don’t even realised that time has passed them by and precious moments that could be created with love ones are gone just like that. 

I will make a shadow box to execute my version of the aquarium. 
 
The idea is that there is a young man sitting down obsess with the phone (Figure 1), and when you shine the torch light from the back (Figure 2), you will see the young man being replaced by the old man, holding a walking stick, with the roots growing from beneath him while the cobwebs are formed around him, still obsess with his phone.
 
This is to emphasize on how obsess people are nowadays on their gadgets until they don’t even realised that time has passed them by and precious moments that could be created with love ones are gone just like that.