Hsc Belonging Peter Skrzynecki and Ben Heine

Individuals may feel a sense of belonging to many people and places. This sense of belonging can amend the individual, becoming a positive influence on his or her life. Ben Heine is the skilled photographer behind the photograph titled Home. This photograph uniquely explores ideas nearly belonging as to provoke thought in regards to the viewers perception of what it actually means to belong. Likewise, these ideas surrounding a connection to people and places ar expressed in Peter Skrzyneckis Immigrant Chronicles.Belonging is the central theme throughout the photograph Home which is clearly represented through the caricature of a barbarian girl establishing herself in a fantasy military man she is depicted consumeing herself into. Ben Heines image represents sureity versus fantasy which could also be viewed as non belonging and belonging. He has accomplished this through holding a pencilled sketch over a section of adjoining photograph to make something real into a distorted fantasy. Un want novels, poetry or songs, images cannot be expressed using a considerable amount of words. Instead images must display ocular techniques to convey ideas.Heine has incorporated numerous visual techniques into his photograph to achieve such complexity in depth and meaning. As the title of the photograph suggests, this image displays images of home, which provokes emotional thoughts towards the people depicted in the image. Within the salient image is a vector where your eyes are pinched towards and then follow a course to where the artist wishes you to look. In the image Home Heine has drawn a vector stemming from the centre of the young girl, which is then followed up the girls arm where she has write the unreserved word Home as a logo upon the singular house.This provokes thoughts as to whether the child and her mother standing to her left actually have a place to call Home. In 10 Mary Street, it is the house that provides a literal and psychological place to b elong. It signifies the Skrzyneckis search for security, identity and safety and is a refuge from the new and strange environment. The family invests too much in its importance, however, and the personification of the houses China blue coat reveals its discretion and that the nature of belonging to a place is transitory.This reveals the poets recognition of the position of vulnerability the family are in at the hand of their rigidity and exposes the dangers of relying on a place to belong. In 10 Mary Street the Skrzyneckis have a home, unlike the little girl portrayed in Home who has to draw a fantasy which includes a house and family to belong. The entire photograph Home depicts reality versus fantasy. The reality in the image is exemplified by the use of colour whereas the fantasy is shown in b deprivation and white sketching.The fantasy is a perfect illusion which would easily be concealed as reality if it werent for the obvious wrinkle between the colour palette, and lack of it. The pencilled fantasy is a perfect world however it is clearly a childs fantasy. The girls mother standing next to her seems oblivious to the girls imaginative world. She is absorbed in what is right in front of her reality. This is similar in St Patricks College as Peters mother is oblivious to her sons wishes. In the last paragraph the poet states prayed that someday mother would be pleased hat the darkness around me wasnt for the best. The repetition of this negative phrase wasnt for the best reinforces Skrzyneckis negative attitude to his mothers pickax of education for him as she was initially merely impressed by the uniforms of her employers sons. It implies some criticism for his mothers choice of school based on the ideas and attitudes of others and peradventure not on what is best for her sons personality and happiness. The God-like hand stemming from the right hand side of the image Home is holding the sketch.It is as though he is giving the girl opportunities, fores ight into what her life could be like, a guiding hand making dreams come true. In the fantasy is a simple home and at its base lays a car, happy smiling people united by held hands. It is a wealthy area which is clean, unpolluted and uncrowded. This description is juxtapose by the reality which is a poor, dirty, polluted, crowded looking area. The people in the fantasy holding hands are a representation of family, happiness, familiarity, safety and acceptance. interestingly in reality there is just the girl and her mother without a father figure present.However, sketched in the childs fantasy world there is a family a mother, a father and a daughter who are united by held hands. This representation of belonging in the fantasy contrasts the reality as in the reality there is a large distance between mother and daughter where the mum and she are separated. This is shown by the tilt of the mums head away from the girl. The transition between childhood and adulthood often leads to a di stancing between parents and their children. In the poem Feliks Skrzynecki this idea is evident as like a dumb prophet watched me pegging y tents further in the south of Hadrians Wall. The simile, like a dumb prophet and the metaphor further south of Hadrians Wall emphasises the gap between Skrzynecki and his father because of different life experiences. Feliks is both dumb and revelatory as he portrays a certain lack of knowledge of the English language whereas Skrzyneckis English grows and Feliks is powerless to speak up about his sons movement away from him. He is prophetic as he can foresee that his son will come to value his heritage in later years at the expense of his gap from it in youth.The image Home is like a story. Firstly, you look through the vector into the girls fantasy then your eyes are drawn towards the mother who is clearly at peace with her culture and third world. She has accepted her life, unlike her young daughter who is metaphorically represented reachin g up for more(prenominal) than what she has. Then your eyes are drawn to the bottom of the picture where both the mum and daughter are being supported by their third world structure. This is a metaphor as they need their country this is their Home. They are citizens of the soil.