People around the world are leaving out teddy bears for children on their daily walks to spot

(Bakar, 2020)

The denoted sections in these images are that teddy bears being left outside for people to look at them when they are going to their walks during the lockdown. The images show them being outside so people can look at them being pleased with them. On looking at what has connoted the images telling a story about what life is going on with the current Cobid-19 Pandemic. When looking at the images it shows what people had been going through due to Covid-19 this is highlighted when looking at how they are placed. The meaning behind these teddy bears is to make people look at them and to bring a smile to their face when outside when they are lonely. On some of the bears, there is hygiene information to show what they should or should not do when it comes to the virus. The way they are presented is to make people wonder about what is going on.

I am affected with this work by the message the story is about it gives me sadness about what has been going due to the life we have to live under due to the current climate. When looking at the images you look at the teddy bears first due to how they have been presented to the eye this has been done as the main story for this work is to show the life of the pandemic in the time. When looking at the image it shows stories that people are trying to highlight with the life that they are currently living under. The stories are at times on some of these bears are shown below or a link to find out more about them, the bears are placed out to make young children happy. When looking at the images together it fills me with happiness that we are coming together at a time of great problems with the lockdown that was in place when this story was written. The ideas that I am planning on talking from this body of work is how they have shown the teddy bears to the viewer, I am going to take on the style of how it has all been presented to the eye.  

The work is significant to my project because I am planning on making stickman my desirable object and when looking at the images it shows emotion to highlight the problem of the virus. I am planning on taking forward how the toys are placed in the centre so it can be looked at quickly when people are scrolling through social media. The work is important to highlight the time of the lockdown.

The strengths of the work are that it shows what people got up to during lockdown, the main strength is that is they all link together when it came to the message of hope with the bears. The thing I will do differently is not using bears but stick man and use different locations, the weakness when downloading them is the resolution is not the best that is all I think is the problem due to the fact they could not go out as often.

The original article was aimed at parents with young children to try and get them to take part in this scavenger like hunt when it came to looking for the bears. The work is important to the time as it relates to the virus and how we had to change, the work is also important as a morale booster when we are all locked inside and with nothing to do. The work will hold in time as lockdown 1 has been a challenge for many and people will look back at the time forced to stay inside to prevent people from dying.

The only place I have looked at the images has been online with the context from it showing what happened before. This will work in a newspaper as it is from the Metro and this means it will be in print, the difference is going to be how the images are placed so the viewer can get the most out of the article without losing track. I think they would work in an online gallery not a physical one as young children will not enjoy it as much as they will want to find the bear themselves. This would work as a map with the location to take part in a covid secure scavenger hunt to find the bears outside, thus allowing them to get outside and not be in the way and likely give others the virus.

References

Bakar, F., 2020. People around the world are leaving out teddy bears for children on their daily walks to spot. [Online] 

Available at: https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/05/people-around-world-leaving-teddy-bears-children-daily-walks-spot-12511396/

[Accessed 23 10 2020]