"Of all the obscenities of war, none is as inexcusable as the deliberate slaughter of civilians. Yet much of the world is silent now, though millions of innocent Africans stand in jeopardy of extinction. These people will not die by the sword or the other traditional implements of war. Instead, they will be slain by one of the cruelest weapons of any era -- starvation. They will die slowly and painfully; in a world of abundance, they will die hungry.
And most of the dying will be done in the Horn of Africa. In Ethiopia upwards of 4.5 million people, more than four times the number wiped out by the great famine of 1984-85, may starve this year if food relief is not provided -- and soon. In Sudan, where as many as a quarter of a million people died of hunger in 1987-88, the most dire estimates suggest that 3 million could suffer the same fate by the middle of this decade. Once again the world may see those sickening images: skeletal children too weak to swat away the flies that swarm around their eyes; old people slumped against herding sticks, too weary to take another step."
(Source: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,969198-1,00.html)
Here's a video that I found in YouTube that was uploaded by pumpuriukas:
Title of the video: Every 5 seconds
Run-time: 1:01
So basically I just want to portray hunger and death in my typography. On my research on what colors that can be related....here are the colors that I have found that might be suitable for my artwork:
- Death (and blood) - red/black
- Hunger: orange/brown
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100207191136AAJlEe6
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/48228/your_bodys_relationship_with_food_what.html?cat=51
After doing the research, I did a mind map based on my assignment 1's topic "Food shortage" and I found that the word 'death' and 'hunger' repeats a lot in the events of food shortage, and that is why I will be using 'death' and 'hunger' for my artwork.
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