THERE IS NO PRESENT: A Senior Humor or Satire Art Project by Gilles Laurent (2014)

For my Humor piece I decided to employ the humor device, satire. This humor is the use of irony, exaggeration, and ridicule to expose and criticize people's hypocrisy or vices. I use all these factors to criticize people's obsession with time. As modern day high schoolers we are overwhelmed with projects and assignments, which leave us with little to no free time. I think we should work against this idea of overscheduling our lives and teach ourselves to live in the present. The message this piece is sending is that everything is constantly changing; and that there is no present time.

To create this composition I first used Adobe Photoshop to create the orange background and the lines separating the text from the art. I then used Illustrator to create the running silhouettes around the armb and all typography in this piece.