T-shirt size: X-small (or small if there's no x-small available)
T-shirt color: white
My idea for this project isn't necessarily centered around political issues, but I wanted to delve into the comparison between religion and celebrity culture, if possible. It's a really strong theme in some of my other work, as far as elevating celebrities, especially rappers, to the status of gods because they like to do so in a lot of their music anyways, and I feel like a propaganda project would be a really great way to represent this concept. I thought it would be interesting to push religion as a brand just like these rappers do with themselves, whom they relate to gods.
So that was my main idea, and beyond that I haven't really developed any others that I'm really that excited about. I toyed with doing political issues like women's rights and things like that that I believe are super important in politics, but then I'm worried whatever art I make based on that topic will just turn out looking like an old, tired, excessively-reblogged post you see posted on Tumblr or by your super militant feminist social justice warrior friends on Facebook. And I would rather avoid that, and I'm really excited about the rap gods because it's more in line with my work and it's a topic I love exploring, so I think I might go with that one.
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