What Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing...

'Just What Makes Today's Homes So Different So Appealing' is an iconic photo collage created by Richard Hamilton in 1956. Hamilton Made use of images of consumer items and role models at a time when the UK and USA were rebuilding their economies following WW2. Hamilton stated that he wanted to include: 'Man, Woman, Food, History, Newspapers, Cinema, Domestic Appliances, Cars, Space, Comics, TV, Telephone, Information'. In 1992, with the rise of digital imaging, Hamilton actually remade the work with a new collection of images and icons that reflected the age 35 years later. 
In my 2019 response to Hamilton's collage, I felt that politics would play an important part in my choice of images. There has been a large debate over politics throughout 2019 with talks of Brexit, an upcoming general election, and the divide between supporters of the labour party and the conservatives. In my collage, a protest against Brexit can be seen outside of the window, and I decided to portray current PM Boris Johnson in a clown suit, probably making my views towards Brexit and the conservative party obvious. I also wanted to include an image that represented something popular in the current media, so for this I chose the popular Star Wars TV series 'The Mandalorian', as the show itself has been very anticipated for 2019 and the character Baby Yoda has been all over the internet.

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