Wall Street bull rework: adapting my plans from 3D to 2D

Mid charge, with flared nostrils and horns ready to gore, Di Modica's sculpture captures much of the aggression, stubbornness, largesse and unpredictability of the stock market and the wider economies it sits in. It is cleverly placed so that the general public can walk 360 degrees around it, which makes the bull, and the risk it presents, feel totally unrestricted.

It has become an iconic symbol for finance and so it feels like the ideal image to subvert when looking at counter culture and capitalism.

As mentioned earlier, I originally planned to create a 3D piece, replacing a bulls horns with my fingers; creating a more relatable image with the implication that capitalism is fucking us all. I planned to create a negative mold of my fingers using dentists alginate, then attach my finger casts to a scaled 3D printed charging bull, creating a silicon jacket mold of the combined components and then casting into that. Logistical and financial barriers prevented me from creating this piece at this time. It's on the shelf for another day.

I adapted my idea to my means and time frame, and have decided to use Adobe to create a digitised collage version of my original plan that I will then screen print. I will experiment with the print finish but my initial idea is to print on clear Perspex and then use this to project the image scaled up onto the side of a building. Ideally a bank.