This is the final M6 project for the semester. The webpage cover is for a National Historic Monument for the National Park Service located in Rome, New York. Having spent for than 2,000 cumulative hours volunteering at many NPS sites, Fort Stawix is perhaps closest to the heart from my time with the Oneida Indian Nation's Living History Program, although the program was disbanded several years ago.
This project is comprised of 20+ layers and does not include the multiple effects and/or mask layers. Perhaps the hardest part of this project was finding high resolution images that fit within the concept sketch, as many images were not suitable. Therefore, I had to spend significant time looking until I remembered a famous artists, Don Troiani (http://www.dontroiani.com/), who's work from a prior Oneida Indian Nation commissioned project on the "Battle of Oriskany" painting.
I chose to use elliptical tabs in various colors and put a British and Colonial soldiers on them. I also chose to do the same for the Oneida Indian Nation's participation in the American Revolution, siding with the Colonists and using an Oneida Warrior (image of myself). I also included a tab for historic treaties signed at Ft. Stanwix. Additionally, a tab for background detail on each participant's role in the siege of the fort during August 1777. The webpage also represents the form of a map of the fort, where I placed the tabs for each party with the center represented by the treaties tab.
Now I couldn't complete this webpage for the National Park Service without including their seal and adding representations of historic weapons of the 18th century. That being, a charleville flint lock musket, an officer's sabre and a "hawk" that would have been used by the Oneida warriors. Incidentally, could be used as a weapon of war or an implement of peace as one end of the "hawk" is a pipe and the opposite end a tomahawk.
In the background is a British mortar crew firing on the fort and from a bastion of the fort, a 3rd NY artillery crew is returning fire. Now this may mean nothing to you as a reader, but the British crew is a hand painted cast model, whereas the fort's artillery crew are Park Ranger friend's of mine at Valley Forge Historic Park. Each are scaled down to try to give the correct perspective.
An finally, public media buttons to share the site or any information within the site and capped off with my "©2016 Nate George Designs" copyright information.
