3rd print - based on a section of an artical from Vice magazine.

 In an article about the gang scene in New York I found a section on how drugs play a role in the wealth of people in gangs and how they effected those lower in the ranks of the group. The article state several mini drug empires are controlled by the heads in prison who filter down information the still high ranked people out of prison who then pass it on to the other members know as ' street solders.' who the distribute the drugs. I found this an interesting cycle but in particular the pressure that the gangs put on young people and school children to become 'street soldiers.'

So I wanted to illustrate this idea of how the drugs trade consumes a person and this is why I decided to illustrate a rock and the have the person appear from inside it. I wanted to compose it in a similar way as the solitary confinement illustration and have a narrative flowing throughout. I think that the image dose work effectively this way.

I then decide to have a go at a new process foiling which I have never uses before. I found that after adding it to the screen prints that it was actually relevant to what I was depicting. Because for certain drugs like Crack which come in a rock from , and heroin , which is sometimes heated up using a metallic spoon , the process and context use fitted. I am really happy with this ! The colours of the rock , I could have emended slightly to more blues rather than greens. But overall happy. I also like the experimental feel to it aswell, it is not as refined as some the other images so far, but Foiling is something I may stick at. However the question dose arise how would this fit into an industry context ? adding metallic elements to a newspaper won't work but a magazine possibly yes ?