Task 1B – Fire and Ice

After reading through the poem, the idea of representing two different kinds of destruction came to me. What I decided to do then, was depict the journey of two individuals, braving through and both being the survivor of their own type of apocalyptic world, coming together in a culmination of fire and ice, and yet with the distinction between them as individual elements. For all three photos in the sequence, I took stock images of the internet, and manipulated them using photoshop, but in the end, I wanted to be able to depict the idea of a journey through destruction, and their meeting each other.1.5

The first picture is meant to show the path of a lone man on a journey through an icy wasteland. This one is meant to depict the destruction of the world through ice and how lonely and cold the world would be if it were to happen. It not only depicts the external coldness of the environment he is in, but also the emotional turmoil and coldness within the man as he makes his journey.

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The second picture is meant to be a transition from the first image in the sense that now it’s another figure on their own journey, this time through fire. The ground beneath them is literally on fire as sparks fly and  stones glow with heat. Their apocalyptic world is one in stark contrast to the one before. Instead of stillness and stagnancy, this one is wild and passionate. But despite the warmth of the picture, the fire is still clearly burning at the feet of the figure. In addition, the steps of the second figure may be a continuation of the one before, but the journey they are about to take is wholly different from the other.

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However, both these individuals finally meet each other in the last image. It’s meant to show the idea of ice and fire coming together, not to neutralise, but to complement. The man is meant to represent the journey of ice and the woman the journey of fire. Two kinds of destruction meet, but they are strangely meld together in complementary shapes. The ending is ambiguous; we do not know what happens to them after they meet, and what this end of their journey were to signify, or whether they would continue their journey. Even the figures themselves are not completely combined; the whiteness of space between them is to show how they are both still very different from each other, and that though the kinds of destruction may meet, they are still mutually exclusive. I wanted to depict the ambiguity of their relationship, but still show the coldness of ice, and the passion of fire within these two figures, that came out of their long journey.

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Image sources:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Iceland_Grimsvoetn_1972-B.jpg

https://fanboychlop.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/walkingaway.jpg

http://pngimg.com/upload/fire_PNG6001.png

http://img05.deviantart.net/743d/i/2013/211/3/a/the_spark_never_lit_up_a_fire_by_bonhamie-d6funob.jpg

https://thiswildwakingjourney.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/sensual-bodies.jpg

http://img01.deviantart.net/a2cb/i/2010/055/1/b/fire_png_by_cikeno.png

https://americanicetheatre.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/12495ice_surface.jpeg

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