Running Emotions: Journal Entry

My last project was called Running Emotions. I gave my project the name “Running Emotions” because the words that are written on the beanie represent all the words that I have been called throughout my life. The positive and negative. I put the negative words on the left side because we use our right side of our brain more than the left. I try and concentrate more on the positive words than the negative. This project gave me the opportunity to reflect on my past and how much I have grown and put my struggles behind me. The emotional words are always running through my head, but I try to block then out as good as I can. I found a mannequin head that is close enough to my hair color, eye color and skin tone so that it could represent me when I present my project.

The process of making my project was simple, yet an emotional effect! I started out by thinking of colors that could represent each set of words. I went with the black on the negative side because black tends to represent something negative. I went with pink on the positive side because pink provides feelings of caring, tenderness, self-worth and love, acceptance. I cut the two beanies in half and then sewed the opposite colors two together. I then took “puffy paint” and wrote the words on each side of the beanie. I wanted to make the negative side depressed in a way so that is why I stuck with the white and black colors. The other side was the positive so I used pink,yellow and sparkles with a sequenced border to make it happy! 

I choose the beanie because it is something that you could wear, when you walk around people could see what you are thinking inside of your head, see the pain with the words that you have been called, but also see the positive and inspiring words. The project represents the human body because the words on the beanie are like the inside of your brain. I have taken the inside of my brain and moved it to the outside. People can start to understand you more. 

New Project: Journal Entry

For my next project i was thinking about doing something in relation or to express the acts of abortion. I want to show that i am against it. I was thinking about trying to do something that represents a pregnant male. I want to do that because men don't have to make the choice that the females to. Its harder for the females to decided than the men. As a female you are more attached to the baby before it is born because you are carrying it in your stomach, feeding and taking care of it. 


Some people believe that abortion is an act of mercy, its showing the love to a child that would endure the life of being unwanted. Abortion is murder. You are killing a life of a baby that could grow up and become someone, they could be an inspirational person/ individual. You not allowing them to experience life. Abortion is allowing the U.S death population to increase. If getting pregnant was a mistake and you are not ready to provide a fulfilling life for a child then do an adoption choice. There fore you can give the baby a better life, and to give a family that can provide it with a better life than death. 


I know pictures of aborted embryos and fetuses are shocking and most people cant stand to look at them but  they no more shocking than abortion itself. No one will truly understand what abortion really is until you are able to see it, and if you are not able to see it you will never know know or understand what is really is.There are things which using words fail to communicate, the brutality you are putting the fetus through. 


Photographs are very unpleasant, but it's easy for some people to deal with things that they can not see. Everyday there are thousands of tiny humans like the one below that are being destroyed so easily in a local clinic that people visit everyday. Abortion pictures show what a thousand speeches can't.






Here is a picture of an aborted embryos just from being fertilized for 8 weeks. Look - it is a fetus that has a body structure and starting to produce the eye sockets, rib cages, hands, legs, and stomach. You can see the skeleton of the hands and legs.  


So, i ask myself - i wonder what would happen to the abortion rates if the mothers had to watch as there babies hearts stopped beating..had to make it happen themselves with the doctor guiding their hands?

Michael Yon.: Journal Entry

After college with my major in Visual Arts with an emphasis in Photography i was thinking about becoming a photojournalist. I want to be a photojournalist because i want to capture the pictures out there of people in poverty or people that are suffering from a disease or cancer. I want to travel to different countries and then bring back the photos and share them. I was looking around and getting information about it and i came across a photojournalist named Michael Yon. Though i was doing some research on him and his technique on taking pictures i found one of his pictures that really stood out to me and made my heart grieve for not only the soldiers but the civilians in iraq that are experiencing. They have to experience it first had and have to go through the war. They have see their loved ones die. Soldiers have to put their life on the line. Some soldiers try and save the children and civilians from the war because they are innocent. 


I found this picture of an American soldier cradling an infant girl and as you can see the blanket the infant is in is covered in blood. After reading about the photo i learned that the child later dies on the helicopter ride to an american hospital for treatment, but this picture shows the love and compassion the soldier had to help save the young boy and try and help him survive. The picture was taken in 2005. The soldiers name is Major Bieger. 





About Yon's Work: He is a former Yon, a freelance journalist with troops and post his photographs online to report the war. He wrote about acts of compassion and heroism that the U.S Army gives to the innocent civilians that are in the war environment. His images are very powerful and can be used to see both sides of the war. The dramatic part of the suffering civilians but also the life of a soldier that is put on the line. By taking the photo's of war, the nature tells a the story, it is not very pleasant, but it helps people understand how they are suffering. 

Dorothea Lange: Journal Entry

I really appreciate her photographs that she takes. her most recognizable and influential photographs of all time, is called the "Migrant Mother". The picture was taken February of 1936 in Nipomo, California. Its of the migrant mother and her children that were suffering along side her. You can see that they have dirty and old clothes on. They don't look like they have showered and they just look sad and depressed they truly look "suffering" . She took pictures in the great depression time and it really allowed people to see how it affected most people during that time. It brought to their attention how others were suffering.  


Dorothea had gone through a rough life growing up. She was diagnosed with polio when she was 7 and she started to get weaker and she grew older. It was very hard for her around the age of 12 because her father abandoned her and her mother and left them fighting for themselves. I think that is why i really appreciate her work, is because she had a rough life with ups and downs, but got through it and became a well known photographer. She didn't let those bumps in her life hold her back. 


When the Great Depression started  to impact peoples lives, she realized that the importance of capturing and recording the problems that people were facing was really a big deal. She didn't want to take pictures indoor because those pictures are not where you see the most suffering the most dramatic suffering was on the streets, so she went out and started to take pictures. She began observing and recorded all the people that were struggling and how they were trying to survive and that is when she really reached out and wanted to take pictures and document the poverty, so that later on people could look back and not only see the pain, but also feel the pain they were living in. It allowed the public to become aware of what others were going through.


As people started to see these photos, they began to show compassion for those who were suffering and really wanted to reach out and help them. As public started to help change the government started to see it and they all worked together to help one another survive and develop a better life and environment. 


She is still credited with having some of the most influential photographs of all time. She passed away at the age of 70 in 1965 because she was diagnosed with esophageal cancer.

Spamhenge: Journal Entry

For our mid-term we were given 2 products to choose from, either spam or soap to make any sculpture that we wanted to. I decided to go with the spam because i wasn't sure if i was going to be able to sculpt something out of the soap.  At first i didn't really know what to make out of spam and i thought it was going to be kind of difficult. I was thinking and since i am an art major i decided to make something that is in the art history. I sculpted the "stonehenge."

 It was hard at first because i was doing it on a plate and the plates round edges kept making the pieces of spam knock over. So, then i cut a piece of cardboard and covered it with paper to make a flat surface. I also was not sure how i was going to keep the pieces of spam stay up to represent the stone. So, i half baked them and they stuck to the paper and stayed up themselves! I was very pleased with the outcome of my project and it was kinda fun working with it.

Sweet Sensations: Journal Entry

I gave my project this title because it thought that it fit it very well. Candy is sweet and the sounds of music that come out of a guitar are sensational.

Starting this project I wasn’t really sure why I was using the materials I did and also the point of it. I wanted to do a mobile project and I thought that this would be a good idea. I knew for sure I also wanted to use candy.  

The process of putting together my project took a lot of time and commitment. I wanted to have a mobile project, at first i wanted to use the candy and made a wind chime out of it. I then realized that there would be no point in make a wind chime if it didn’t make noise. So, I came across using the candy and making a pinata out of it. I bought a guitar pinata and many different kinds and colors of candy. I bought M&M’s, sour patch kids, dots, gummy bears, and gummy sharks. I cut all the fringe things off the pinata and put them in the inside. I separated the candy into colors and glued them on the pinata on the appropriate places. I had to wait for each section to dry before I could continue onto the next.  

I don’t really know my intensions of choosing these materials for my project. After starting it and analyzing it, I started to connect with it. I love candy and especially the kinds I used, but also I love music, especially acoustic. It was something different from what I did last time. I really wanted to step up on this project and show that I worked harder and did a better job than my last one. I really feel confident in this project and feel good about it.

Armature: Journal Entry

This is my armature project. It is called "Ballon" which is a ballet term and means ability of a dancer to hold in air a pose of position. In ballet you have to be able to hold a position and show balance and strength. I tried to represent it as good as possible.

I used wire for the armature part and i used silk for the skin and to attach the skin i used thread and sewed in on. I cut 6 long pieces of the where and knotted and twisted them to make the "legs". I used another piece of wire and twisted it around the "legs" to make the box. I then cut pieces of the silk and sewed them on. I used two different colors (white and silver, though you can't really tell)

My intentions of this project was to show the elegant appearance of a ballet dancer. It is a simple armature structure with a unique meaning. I wanted to represent ballet in my armature not only because i have been performing since i was little, but also because it comes from a different history form's of art and with this assignment we built different forms of art.

I used to silk to represent the material of the costumes and the soft colors that show an elegant meaning. Silk shows elegance, beauty, and flexibility, also when it is shown in the light it shines just like the ballet dancers do on stage. The wire represent the flexible part as shown that they are twisted and the end. I went with the box in the middle because i feel that it shows the steadiness of posture you must maintain. You must be strong and a box is strong.