I did some research on political cartoons and influential street art and found a few pieces that sparked influence for my own piece showing me how others have conveyed political and social views via their art. I started to brainstorm and think about matters that I feel impacted by and that I am knowledgeable of. After some sketching and trial and error I came to my concluding idea of a baby wearing a flat cap, with a cigarette hanging from it's mouth, with the title Indoctrinated Youth.

The meaning behind the title of this piece is to project the idea of certain hand-me-down opinions that leave no space for mindsets to progress hence the baby having an old face, I feel that among my generation politics sometimes has no space to progress due to people being spoon fed outdated ideas from their predecessors. I chose the cigarette as I wanted to show that this is a derogatory thing to us - with the cigarette sharing the derogatory connotations. I chose his hat to be a flat cap as to me this seems to have elderly connotations highlighting that these opinions and habits have been down multiple generations. 

I decided to do this piece at an abandoned RAF base in Driffield as it felt like an interesting environment for my art to be displayed and I spent most of my day looking around the old RAF base - at previous art and taking inspiration from it. I was unsure whereabouts I could do this piece throughout the RAF base and where the environment would enhance the creativity of my piece. I eventually came across a derelict room with a small segment of the wall intact and still had white paint on it while the rest of the walls layer of paint had peeled away over time. I liked this as it further displayed the idea of corroded political views and with art coming from it showing there is still chance for good to emerge.