Scotland and Slavery Project
This is a college project exploring the links Scotland has with slavery with a focus on Glasgow and how it benefitted greatly from the slave trade. I decided to try to update the slave ship diagram and make it more modern and understandable in a 3D context.
this was my first image for my project, just an initial image that came to me, depicting Scottish slaves holding up the now gallery of modern art, which was the house of William Cunninghame, a tobacco lord.
read about the Zong massacre, thought about making some haunting type images.
began to build a ship
I tried to make the ship accurate to those at the time.
my ship held 483 figures, the brooks ship, the one this is based on says it carried up to 609
inside
with better lighting
I tried to put the scale in some sort of context. like ships on a football pitch
more simplistic idea but still powerful
what 403 people looks like.
thought about more abstract things
red is the number killed in the Zong massacre
more abstract again
final piece was this video with the information displayed in a visual way.