Artist Statement

The concept i m using is based on War on Poverty.
My inspiration is based on all the quotes i have posted on this blog.
But i figured instead of portraying the negative views or literal portrait regarding it, i came out with a graphic representation of something that seemly tragic or sad but actually containing a positive meaning behind it.
Following are the breakdown of my artwork:

Milk carton

In my opinion, there r 2 main needs in life - food and shelter.
Milk is a meal everyone should have. It was our first meal ever and the only meal we had for a few months of our early life. Our body grew healthy solely on a diet consist of only milk.
For those without food or very little of it, it's hard for the mother to produce enough milk or produce milk that nutritious enough for the baby and often resulting malnourishment and also death.

Blood    

For many, the sight of blood often means injury,tragedy and death.
In my artwork, the blood symbolize life.
Blood carries all the oxygen n nutrients we need throughout our body.
Blood also keeps our body warm by regulating heat to our skin.


Hole on the box


It symbolize sacrifice,charity and compassion.

In whole, i m trying to give a message that if we can be unselfish enough to poke a hole and give or share a bit of our resources to those who need it, we are not just giving food or money..we r donating blood into their body.

Final Artwork

Second Concept

Milk - food, basic need, first meal of any child
Gun holes - Extortion, crime, ignorance

There will be several messages on each side of the milk carton

First Concept

Gun - Extortion, desperation, crime
Rice explosion - Hunger, malnourished
Blood - Death, sickness

Inspiration - Gandhi's quote

Quotes

Poverty is the most form of violent. 

Mahatma Gandhi

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. 

Muhammad Ali

Poverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus Aurelius

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Robert Kennedy

There is something about poverty that smells like death.
Zora Neale Hurston

credit: BrainyQuotes

ONE Campaign - The African Dream

A short video to promote awareness on poverty in Africa.
But so far only received 37,000 views.
From that 37,000, how many actually take the initiative to do something about it?

credit: John Abdulla (username: jabdulla)

Poverty Facts and Stats

Here is the link showing world's poverty population and status as per September 2010

http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats

credit: Anup Shah

Profile

Name:
Mohd Abtal Zulhazmi bin Idris

ID:
1091104675

Artwork Title:
War on Poverty