Often creativity is lost within a monotonous world and snatched by an eight-hour work day. Chicken Riot invites one into this narrative day and the life of a mundane factory worker whose visuals are captured within machinery and anxiety. These compositions embody a healing process as these relate to difficult personal experiences from the time working in a meat processing plant. Illustrator has inspired me to create this narrative as it has allowed me to use expressions within shapes and textures to map out my experience in a chronological order. Artists such as Salvador Dali and Owen Davy, as well as films such as “Chicken Run” and “Inside Out” heavily influenced my style during this healing journey. The colour scheme and values helped me bring my narrative to perspective. Psychology also has been a huge part of this show as I feel the time I have served in this meat processing plant allowed me to go through stages of recognition. From a place of annoyance and anxiety to deconstructing myself into this abstracted machine that seems to only know redundancy to finally ending the shift as a car leaving this industrial world behind; into pure bliss of freedom in becoming this creative individual. Over all I feel that this exhibition is a healing process. A way of coping through an industrial world that seemed to have laid me out flat countless of times. A rude awakening of becoming true to myself and understanding where my creativity needs to go in the future. This body of work has empowered me to take action as a graphic designer.
