Monday 17 May 2010

Semiotics-Slinkachu



This is a photograph taken by an artist who does street based illustrations and photography. He focuses on making little people
involving normal size things.
The main focus in these photos are the little people he has created, and what they are doing.
The photo I'm focusing on is the far left.
It is a vodka bottle with the sign "local council swimming pool." The signified is the people swimming in the "pool", the child waiting to go swimming, and the bottle itself representing the pool.
Because vodka looks the same as water, we can only guess that it is vodka because of the appearance of the bottle. The two people swimming in the pool look fully grown, so I'm presuming they are adults, but the person waiting has a rubber ring around their waste, and smaller, so by looking the clues are there that he is a child. A child waiting to swim in vodka?
which could be a message of underage drinking. He could be waiting there to go in, which would be illegal? or he might be waiting for a parent because he wasn't allowed in.

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