Once this question during my research popped into my head during my research I couldn’t get it out. It made me question myself and the world around me.
I haven’t had the easiest of lives however I am extremely grateful for what I do have, especially now. I have a family, and education, a job, a boyfriend who loves me and I love in return, I have my sight (something I am thankful for every day), I have the NHS, I have been able to travel, travel a lot. I have a lot. And one thing for sure I have opportunities.
So because of how my brain works, and what it needs, I researched statistics. I like numbers. I learned of many horrors from around the world. I decided not to look into war, and still so much came up. Women in Burkina Faso not having basic human rights, being forced to marry and not having access to contraception. In Somalia only 10% of the population have a primary education. In Laos, a country I love, 60% of children are malnourished or anaemic. 23% of the country lives in poverty. I learned much more on top of what I already knew as well; such as in Malaysia it is illegal to be LGBTQ+ and you can be sentenced to 20 years in prison. I created works based off these facts.
With these images I wanted to integrate typography as that is something I have really wanted to experiment with.
Even though I like these images, that’s it, I only like them. I am not inspired by these images, and was trying to push them further, I struggled and struggled until I had an idea which I experimented with to create a mock up.
https://borgenproject.org/tag/literacy-in-somalia/