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What I have done well in this unit & What I need to improve from next unit

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What I have done well in this unit & What I need to improve from next unit

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What I have done well:
1. In-depth research and Idea development on the topic of the consequences of child abuse/neglect
2. Fully understanding my targeted audiences (Creating multiple pieces of work based on my community).

What I need to improve:
1. STILL lack of experimentation. Try not to limit yourself.
2. Moe in-depth exploration on the materials.

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Unlike I intended, all the images were not linked to correct images. Also, the zine order of each images (including the cover and the back) was messed up.

This hugely affected the message I was trying to deliver. Although it was 'visually' fine as a final outcome, I still thought I should republish the zine (I want a product that convinces the audiences through the content not the visual aspects.

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Since I am physically located in South Korea at the moment, I wanted create diverse outcomes that audiences can participate in raising awareness on child abuse.

Method of meeting my audience:
- Creating sticker as a form to spread: Sharing the stickers with my friends, family and neighbors. My friend shared the stickers with their friends and their friends also shared the stickers with their relatives. --> This perfectly met my goal: allows the victim of the incident, the person who makes the work, and the audience who saw my work to participate in preventing the same history from being repeated.

- Creating physical copy of the zine.

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Considering the physical distance between I and the targeted audience, I could not create a physical outcome. Therefore, I create a 'digital zine', that visualizes 'the potential long term effects of child abuse/neglect that extend to adult hood'.

Method of meeting my audiences:
- Participating art competition that subjects social/political issues
- Participating art competition that subjects creative illustrations and content

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Front:
Back:

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I wanted to create a work that also allows the audience to participate in making a work for domestically abused children. In order to achiever this goal, I decided to create tracing drawing paper for the audiences to try making 'glass stickers' by themselves. I tried to simplify each drawings so that it is easier for the audiences to try out.

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Tracing drawing for the audiences to participate in creating glass stickers

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Tracing drawing for the audiences to participate in creating glass stickers

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I provided sticker packs to my friends, family and neighbours. They participated to spread the knowledge. I walked out the street and took pictures of my stickers that were put up by those who received the stickers from me. I felt like the audiences were forming a 'community' through my work. Few days later, I have went back to the place where each stickers were put up. Surprisingly, none of them were taken off.

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1st printed zine had errors.

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Balance between with and without the text

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Balance between with and without the text

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Some images do not incorporate 'text' since the power of delivery is stronger without them.

The font of each 'text' is written with a child's hand writing --> Persuading the audience as the victim

Positioning each stickers considering the colours and forms --> Stopping the stickers from disturbing each other.

Unlike the zine, I wanted the stickers to deliver two different message: 1. Witness what domestically abused children are experiencing / 2. Report to 112 (Korean police number) when they see abused children. Why? Compare to other countries, Korea has very low child abuse reporting rate.

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Experimenting with glass decoration kit was very unique and interesting. I felt like this was first for me to move away from the tight plan I had for my project and explore various method of delivery. Learning from this experience, I will no longer be scared to experiment with various materials. I really liked how I am starting to form two different community in UK and South Korea. In this case, more people would be able to understand the seriousness of domestic abuse and sense some kind of responsibility as 'adults' to make changes for the children's future.

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Tracing drawing lines for the audiences to try making glass stickers.

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Tracing drawing lines for the audiences to try making glass stickers.

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I am not incorporating text because I want the audience to think of their own 'text' when they see these images.

Theses are the pages, where they can reflect back on their moral attitude and responsibility as adults (protecting young children by paying attention on their struggles).

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No 'text'

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No 'text'

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Font: Hand writing of an Adult + Child
Content: "How to deal with conflict: 1. raise voice
2. Show hatred
3. Fist up" - adult HW
I learned from my parent - child HW

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No 'text'
Reason: The 'verbal' abuse drawing (ex.x!@Z) is enough to show what is happening.

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Font: Hand writing of an Adult
Content: "Can I leave the circle?"
Reason: When they do have the power to leave, they are still not sure if they can.

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Font: Hand writing of a child
Content: "I can not leave the circle"
Reason: They do not have the right to leave or stay (strictly managed by abusing parent)

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Font: Hand writing of an Adult
Content: "I am locked"
Reason: The child grows up closing his/her emotion. Now, he/she became the padlock, feeling socially isolated.

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Page 3: Child retuning back to place where he/she got abused

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Page 3: Child retuning back to place where he/she got abused

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Font: Hand writing of a child
Content: "The place unlocked, The place abused"
Reason: Abused children need to go back to place they got abused because it is the only door unlocked. Implying how our society ignores their existence.

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Font: Hand writing of an Adult
Content: "Are they Important?"
Reason: Neglected children grow up feeling difficult to sympathise for others. Now they question if other people are important. The word 'important is repeated in this image to create a link between these two images.

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I realized the 'portrait' layout is difficult for the audiences to compare two different images at once to embrace my message.

Then what should I do?

Instead of drawing two images on one canvas as a 'portrait' form, I decided to place only one image on each page. In this case, audiences can compare images in a 'landscape' form.

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Font: Hand writing of a child
Content: "I am Important"
Reason: The neglected child consoles him/herself by reminding the importance of existing. Instead of deliberately saying that the child has be 'neglected', I wanted to show that 'domestically abused children had to be independent by force'.

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Page 3:

Continuing with the page 2 image 3, I decided to present the children as the colour 'blue' (so that it is easier for the audience to identify the victims). Circle also symbolizes the repetition of verbal/physical abuse. Emphasizing the difference between 'inside'/outside' the hole by 'raining'.

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Page 5:

This is the page where I ask what kind of responsibility we need to have for those children. The simple action of recognizing changes the world of abused children.

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Page 4:

The audiences are seeing the violated actions of the parents from the child's perspective. I am slowly building up the 'participation opportunities' for the audience. They are in the shoes of the abused children, experiencing their pain and struggles.

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FINAL OUTCOMES

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<Memory as a child>
Abused children grows up seeing the violated actions of their parents.

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Using the researches I have conducted so far, I started to design the content of my zine. This series of work visualizes the potential long term effects of child abuse/neglect that extend to adult hood. I am thinking of creating 4 more pages, showing how the domestic violence on child leads to adverse outcomes in the victim's adulthood.

However, due to the heaviness of the topic that I am dealing with, I could not deliberately visualize what the abused children have experience (It may bring out the fear from the audience). To deliver the stories that the audiences need to hear, even if it is painful to hear, I decided to use 'metaphorical' images as the device to visualize the memory of the victims and the consequences of neglecting their struggles. For example, all the houses were locked up with padlock so child had to go back to the place where he/she got abused. When she/he grew up, it got locked emotionally.

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" No more restriction on visual language. "
Using the advice I received from the feedback session, I started to design 3 more pages for the zine. Instead of just using 'Metaphorical' method of delivery, I started to be more creative with visualizing the seriousness of neglecting the tragedy of domestically abused children. Also, I tried not to restrict myself from using various colours.

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Considering the comments from the feedback session, I decided to Incorporating 'texts' to both zine and sticker. However, considering the two different community that I am dealing with, I had to think about what kind of language I would be using (Korean? English? or both?)

Conclusion:

Zine
Language: English
Reason: Zine can be made in a form of digital book (able to access online). Also, I can participate for art competition that subjects social/political (ex. Creative Conscience ). In this case, more audience in UK get to think deeply about rises in child abuse cases in UK after Covid outbreak.

Sticker
Language: Korean
Reason: Since I am in South Korea right now, I can use the sticker as a form to spread (naturally raising awareness on the child abuse). I can also provide this to working organization in South Korea so that more people get to participate in spreading the sticker = more people participate in spreading the awareness.

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<Consequences of neglecting their pain>
Children who witnessed parental violence shows violated behavior when dealing with the conflict.

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<Consequences of neglecting their pain>
This leaves uncertainty for the abused children who grew up as adults, if it is possible for them to leave the restrictions when they do have the power (Image on the right).