I chose to use a ceramic bright red bull for my project. Generally a bull is a powerful symbol of strength, but also represents fertility and tenacity. The bull I chose shows a muscular build and the way its hooves dig into the ground reflect these qualities. Honestly my first reaction to this object wasn’t about bullfighting. It reminded me of Red Bull, the energy drink brand. The one classic slogan, “Red Bull gives you wings” played in my head too. While there were no actual wings on the bull, I think the color helped me make that connection. IN this project I want to highlight the bull’s strength, but I also want to reveal the weak side too. I feel like I could maybe use the Red Bull slogan metaphorically to comment on the negative effects of drinking too many energy drinks. I could illustrate this by starting off with a normal bull and then having multiple of them go through fazes, like eventually getting wings (peak energy off drink), then eventually losing those wings and then having the bull break to show how it affects the body negatively.
