Assignment 2 : Less is More (abstraction)

I have decided to work on my theme of street life of which I had always been indulged in. Pictograms can be found at every corner of the street, on road signs to books to product logo... basically anywhere. These are visual representations of objects in reality, in the form of simple words, images or a combination of both, used to easily convey messages, prohibitions, warnings, indications, directions etc. 

Graffiti is advent in Singapore, be it along the alleyways in Haji Lane, or along the walls of private properties. However there is no pictorial prohibition sign around indicating no vandalizing locally. Therefore I have decided to perform the extraction process on the following picture of a man doing graffiti on a wall to transform it into an imperative indexical sign for "no vandalizing":

Specifically, I made use of the simpification, which is the reduction of details, zooming in and cropping to achieve the abovementioned process. Lastly, the addition of the red prohibition sign over the final abstraction to suggest that vandilism is a banned action and is reinforced by law.

Indicator (void decks)