Project 4: "It takes strength to be gentle and kind."
Canvas, Acrylic paints, aluminum foil, glue, scissors, tracing paper
2015
Art Foundations
For my Activism Project, I decided to make it about the way HIV-positive people are treated. Some people assume that just because someone has HIV, they are "bad" or "dirty" people. In reality, some people were born this way (infected through birth) and they had no way to avoid this illness. I decided to use the color red to show that the little girl is HIV positive. I used the Smith's quote: "It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind." I wanted to have my artwork encourage people to be compassionate towards others, no matter what circumstances they have been through.
Canvas, Acrylic paints, aluminum foil, glue, scissors, tracing paper
2015
Art Foundations
For my Activism Project, I decided to make it about the way HIV-positive people are treated. Some people assume that just because someone has HIV, they are "bad" or "dirty" people. In reality, some people were born this way (infected through birth) and they had no way to avoid this illness. I decided to use the color red to show that the little girl is HIV positive. I used the Smith's quote: "It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind." I wanted to have my artwork encourage people to be compassionate towards others, no matter what circumstances they have been through.
Project 3: Death
Tape, newspaper, clay, sculpting tools
2015
Art Foundations
I decided to show Death as a sympathetic character, to cast a different light on the subject of Death, like in THE BOOK THIEF by Marcus Zusack. I chose a clock for a head to represent the passage of time; its torso is a bare Cherry Blossom Tree, which symbolizes the fragility and beauty of life; its legs are melting wax candles which also represent how short life can be. I chose this to show how aesthetics affects everyday objects as well as animators. Death is the least beautiful subject I could think of, and the hardest to represent as a likable character. I wanted to prove that beauty cannot be defined by a single person, which means that anything at all, can be seen as beautiful; all you have to do is look hard enough for it.
Tape, newspaper, clay, sculpting tools
2015
Art Foundations
I decided to show Death as a sympathetic character, to cast a different light on the subject of Death, like in THE BOOK THIEF by Marcus Zusack. I chose a clock for a head to represent the passage of time; its torso is a bare Cherry Blossom Tree, which symbolizes the fragility and beauty of life; its legs are melting wax candles which also represent how short life can be. I chose this to show how aesthetics affects everyday objects as well as animators. Death is the least beautiful subject I could think of, and the hardest to represent as a likable character. I wanted to prove that beauty cannot be defined by a single person, which means that anything at all, can be seen as beautiful; all you have to do is look hard enough for it.
Artists Express and Tell Stories
"Innocence" by Emily Barajas
Canvas Paper, Acrylic Paint, Colored Ink, Lettering Pens, 2H Drawing Pencil, Ruler, Porous Point Pens
2015
Art Foundations
"Innocence" is about my experience with adolescence. Childhood is a wonderful time of your life: you are happy, believe the world is a place that values justice and that has mercy, and it is a time when you have irrational fears and the ignorance to think that the worst thing that can happen is losing your favorite stuffed animal. But once that "child" inside of you dies, you are exposed to so many things that are worse, and facing them by yourself is extremely overwhelming. I made the mistake of believing that growing up would give me power to make my own choices and confidence, but instead it gave me a strange sense of fear, and now I long to go back to being that happy child for just one more time. I want other people to know that they should enjoy their childhood as much as possible, and for those who have already lost it, to know that they are not alone in feeling the same way that I do.
"Innocence" by Emily Barajas
Canvas Paper, Acrylic Paint, Colored Ink, Lettering Pens, 2H Drawing Pencil, Ruler, Porous Point Pens
2015
Art Foundations
"Innocence" is about my experience with adolescence. Childhood is a wonderful time of your life: you are happy, believe the world is a place that values justice and that has mercy, and it is a time when you have irrational fears and the ignorance to think that the worst thing that can happen is losing your favorite stuffed animal. But once that "child" inside of you dies, you are exposed to so many things that are worse, and facing them by yourself is extremely overwhelming. I made the mistake of believing that growing up would give me power to make my own choices and confidence, but instead it gave me a strange sense of fear, and now I long to go back to being that happy child for just one more time. I want other people to know that they should enjoy their childhood as much as possible, and for those who have already lost it, to know that they are not alone in feeling the same way that I do.
Elizabeth Murray Project
Cardboard, knife, gesso, acrylic paint
2015
Art Foundations
Artist's Statement:
The message I want my piece to send to my audience, whoever they may be, is that they should be careful with their actions. I want them to know that someone is always watching or thinks of them as a role model. Once you do something unjustifiably wrong, you set a path for them, or you crush their respect and love for you. I want my piece to develop some sort of conscience in the people who see it. I want to make the world better, by making the people better.
(My piece is the triangle with the eye.)
2015
Art Foundations
Artist's Statement:
The message I want my piece to send to my audience, whoever they may be, is that they should be careful with their actions. I want them to know that someone is always watching or thinks of them as a role model. Once you do something unjustifiably wrong, you set a path for them, or you crush their respect and love for you. I want my piece to develop some sort of conscience in the people who see it. I want to make the world better, by making the people better.
(My piece is the triangle with the eye.)