As an artist, I'm always struggling to find inspiration to create, and when I do find inspiration I always want to do these 40 day project that are entirely unthinkable given my time and resources. We live in a time and a space where we literally can't slow down, life moves at a million miles per hour, with no rest stops, no time to morn lost time, no time to contemplate what's coming up next on the road and no end in sight. This particular...
My freshman year of UMW I was in design principals (Arts105) and we did a self portrait project where we took a black and white photo of ourselves and then turned it into a piece using two colors on the color wheel in different tones. I chose an image with high contrast and turned it into this painting: I really liked this piece because I thought It told a good story. It exemplifies how America sees, and how it treats people of color. But I had...
I never had the chance to go to a summer camp as a kid. My parents worked pretty hard to shelter us from the dangers of the outside world. Now that I'm an adult myself I can understand that they were concerned for my safety and well being, especially being a Black kid with all the terrible things you hear about happening to other children of color. With all that being said, I would have really enjoyed going to a music and arts class when I was...
For this assignment I Wanted to use the Poem Parody I wrote last week as inspiration for the art I made this week. Really I just took an image of some lemon ricotta pancakes I made, then blurred the image behind my poem, and this is the finished result: This assignment was really light and enjoyable, much like the pancakes, and I got a laugh out of revisiting this post so all in all I liked this one, I would definitely revisit this assignment.
