A Cog in the Writing Machine
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
In Class: Candy Cig
My attention is immedietly drawn to the girl's face. She looks absolutely depressed or just tired like no little girl her age should. There are bags under her eyes and her lips turned down in a frown and her eyes are just...sad and empty. There is no real spark in her eyes even though there should be because of her age. Her hair is disheveled as if she hasn't been taken care of recently, it's all mussed about as if she were in her twenties and ready to go out on the night of town or maybe she didn't go to sleep at a decent hour and just didn't have the time to take care of it. That'd explain her eyes. Honestly though, her face is just so depressing.
The girl's face is so old. She looks as if she's in her late twenties. The way she is holding herself with her body and the way she's holding the candy cigerette looks as if she's a model waiting for her go-to to call her back. The other girl, whose face we cannot see, has herh ands on her hips as if she is upset about something and the girl looks like she doesn't really care. The other girl does happen to look like a girl whereas the the girl holding the cigarette is around the same age but looks tremendously older. Her dress doesn't exactly look like it's on right that it's a bit skewed. The background is blurred completely, it's hard to make anything out of it as if it's confused like the little girl probably is. Confused with how young she should be and how old she has aged. Her pose is only that a seasoned smoker would obtain. The nonchalant little slingback, hand under arm reminiscinet to the Silver Screen Sirens back in the 20's/30's who made smoking look sexy. So not what this girl should be looking like.
This image is about the heavy pressure society puts on children for them to grow up. Their clothes, their television, and the things that are just shown in every day life on billboards and commercials are aiding young children to grow faster, mature faster than they should so that they no longer have a childhood. I've heard people my age boast about how they started drinking and smoking when they were twelve years old. That's not cool! I was out playing with my dog and running through my acreage when I was twelve. I starting to become interested in boys and I was scraping my knee climbing trees...not getting a nicotine fix.
The purpose of this image is to be a striking realization that children are learning bad habits at a young age and we're enabling those bad habits. No young child should have a candy cig! That's just bad first off because that glamorizes smoking which is completely horrible for you! Second off, she's just a child and she no longer looks liek a child because she has no childhood. Results of growing up too fast in a very adult geared world. People are aiding their children in growing up to fast, people aern't aware of what is happening to the children of our society. This is a blunt reminder to let children be children and to nip bad habits in the bud.
The girl's face is so old. She looks as if she's in her late twenties. The way she is holding herself with her body and the way she's holding the candy cigerette looks as if she's a model waiting for her go-to to call her back. The other girl, whose face we cannot see, has herh ands on her hips as if she is upset about something and the girl looks like she doesn't really care. The other girl does happen to look like a girl whereas the the girl holding the cigarette is around the same age but looks tremendously older. Her dress doesn't exactly look like it's on right that it's a bit skewed. The background is blurred completely, it's hard to make anything out of it as if it's confused like the little girl probably is. Confused with how young she should be and how old she has aged. Her pose is only that a seasoned smoker would obtain. The nonchalant little slingback, hand under arm reminiscinet to the Silver Screen Sirens back in the 20's/30's who made smoking look sexy. So not what this girl should be looking like.
This image is about the heavy pressure society puts on children for them to grow up. Their clothes, their television, and the things that are just shown in every day life on billboards and commercials are aiding young children to grow faster, mature faster than they should so that they no longer have a childhood. I've heard people my age boast about how they started drinking and smoking when they were twelve years old. That's not cool! I was out playing with my dog and running through my acreage when I was twelve. I starting to become interested in boys and I was scraping my knee climbing trees...not getting a nicotine fix.
The purpose of this image is to be a striking realization that children are learning bad habits at a young age and we're enabling those bad habits. No young child should have a candy cig! That's just bad first off because that glamorizes smoking which is completely horrible for you! Second off, she's just a child and she no longer looks liek a child because she has no childhood. Results of growing up too fast in a very adult geared world. People are aiding their children in growing up to fast, people aern't aware of what is happening to the children of our society. This is a blunt reminder to let children be children and to nip bad habits in the bud.
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