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    Elizabeth (Lici)
    Feb 28, 2018
      ·  Edited: Feb 28, 2018

    Project 2 Wip

    Earlier this February (on the 16th), it was the Lunar New Year. This year is the year of the dog and last year it was the year of the rooster. I own Chinese paper cut of the rooster and dog and plan to use it as part of the projection, with videos/imagery corresponding to 2017 surrounding the rooster and imagery signalling the new year surrounding the dog.

    One particular big event marking 2017-2018 is the first year of Donald Trump in office. Last Lunar New Year, a Chinese mall in Taiyuan put up a rooster imitating Trump to ring in the year of the rooster. Taran Singh Brar later used a similar statue design to protest Trump by placing “Chicken Don” near the White House.


    This year the mall did something similar and put up a Trump dog statue. What’s also interesting is that Trump is born in the year of the dog, thought it’s not predicted to be a good year for him. Trump is also a Fire Dog (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water are elements also associated with each year), and has the typical characteristics of one: hot-tempered, talkative and not in harmony with others, which will work against him in the year ahead.


    For this project I want to try and have typical CNY imagery interspersed with these images in this vein.

    Some CNY motion graphics:











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