People of Color
My piece is called “People of Color”, a visual image comprised of 12 different images. Each image is a still frame from some of the Top Grossing Hollywood Box Office movies of 2016 that I have seen, according to Box Office Mojo. Each black and white still frame displays some or all of the main actors of the film, with each person of color highlighted and saturated in a bright, almost fluorescent hue. My piece aims to comment on the diversity, or lack thereof in some cases, of a lot of major Hollywood films. The appropriated films included in my selection are Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Doctor Strange, The Jungle Book, The Legend of Tarzan, The Magnificent Seven, Central Intelligence, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, X-Men: Apocalypse, Suicide Squad, Deadpool, and Captain America: Civil War.