My FMP Proposal

WORKING TITLE: (A) MORAL


Morality - n, pl -ties
1. the quality of being moral
2. conformity, or degree of conformity, to conventional standards of moral conduct
3. a system of moral principles
4. an instruction or lesson in morals


Amoral - adjective
1. not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral
nor immoral.
2. having no moral standards, restraints, or principles; unaware of or indifferent
to questions of right or wrong: a completely amoral person.

Brief :

To produce a thought provoking and meaningful comment on the issues of morality and amorality in culture today.


Treatment :

This project will examine issues of discrimination, inequality and social pressures within current news stories in order to demonstrate the fine line that can be drawn between what is considered moral in society today. Everything in life today is fast and cheap, people seek the shortest route to something, people are cynical about everything...moral values can often become clouded in the fight to look after yourself and your own.

I want to address issues which might force a person to question their moral values and present the viewer with a call to action. I want to look at Descriptive Ethics, how many moral beliefs are based on prejudice, ignorance or hatred, and Tribal Morality, where the norms of a collective can be imposed
on and prescribed to an individual, and I want to comment on this within the work. The final outcome could be seen as a dilemma, calling the viewer to assess their own values.

My work will incorporate references to fairytale imagery and metaphors using a mixture of collage, illustration, and mixed media. I am interested in how these artificial and elaborate tales were written to teach the reader the fundamentals of life and how they ended in a moral message. Fairytale plots are often quite dark and mysterious and I want this feel to come through in my work, using the juxtaposition of imagined creatures with real life monsters, and imagined realities with horrific things that are going on in the real world.

Final Outcome :
I would like my work to be presented as a patchwork of printed images, reminiscent of a quilt and which ideally would also incorporate elements of moving image. Different sized prints would be placed together in a geometric pattern overlaid with illustration and colour.  This will play on the tradition of quilts used as vessels for personal or collective memories and carrying a narrative, dating back to the 1830s when abolitionists used the quilt design to show anti-slavery poetry and messages.  I would also like to produce a book.

The moving image content of my work will be abstract and will build on the ideas in my print work. I think it would work compliment the print work to have the animation with a traditional gilted frame around the screen, as if it is a traditional painting. I think this would again play on the storytelling and fairytale element.