ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the case study of Jaime Kennedy. Kennedy is an artist and Associate Professor in the School of Visual Communication Design at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. He questions human beings’ intention to make progress in his photographic project, Down the Garden Path. In the first image, Steal a March, seven birds, with their leader wearing a flying apparatus standing on top of a nest of eggs, and five mice, with their biggest-sized occupying another nest of eggs, are in opposition and in competition. The second image in Kennedy’s collection, The Edge of the Mechanical Garden, is about power relations between ruling- and working-class birds. In the third image, The End of the Beginning, a large-sized main figure, wearing a big flying apparatus and standing at the center of the image with divine light behind him, looks back at “ordinary” birds situated in the lower foreground.
