Social Injustice Narrative

Owen Hayden

Through the Smoke

Mediums: Lyra Pencil, Pencil, Paper, Water

My social injustice was based off of freedom of speech, and after research I found out about the umbrella protest and was inspired. The people of Hong Kong have had there voices suppressed and I wanted to bring light to it. I wanted to address this issue in my concentration piece, and drew inspiration from a photograph of a man surrounded in tear gas with a umbrella. In this piece, it uses many different shades of darkness and techniques with the tools. For example, the clouds are used with the Lyra pencil and water.