Most of the pieces in my collage are from New York Times newspapers or New Yorker. At first I had intended to make a piece much more like Frida Khalo's but I was finding it hard to make work that was inspired by Dadaism and looks like Frida’s. So I started looking into the issues I wanted to address first and see what the magazines and newspapers had to say about them. I started with just regular messages about the current political state in the USA. Most of the articles were helpful but I started to cut out random pieces that spoke to me. My biggest interest was having the eyeball as the main focus, inspired by surrealist pieces. So the eye itself is a newspaper's page that was just a bunch of ads for places looking for help. But inside the eye is a caged world. The cage is not the pattern of. typical one but is actually traditional red white and blue with a star to represent how patriotism keeps the world caged. And for aesthetics the cage is actually upside down. This was really when I started to get interested in the politics for this pieces. The second big focus is a hand which is just a representation of the four cultures that make me who I am. And the words in each figure are just either National Anthems, songs I listen to regularly to connect with that side of my ancestors. I think I ended up with. a surrealist dada piece in the end because of how much I enjoyed the rustic look of the newspaper and how simple yet effective it was.
“The self depicts the drama of our own daily performance of ourselves in tension with our inner emotions that may or may not be expressed as we wish.” This talk of the self was less about my physical self but more about my identity in regards to who I am as a person without my face.
“The selfie resonates not because it is new, but because it expresses, develops, expands, and intensifies the long history of the self-portrait.”
My goal was to expose some of my historical aspects in life through musical lyrics and chants from Taino. And then expose how my identities are caged up because of patriotism and the idea that one culture is more elite than another’s.
“This densely populated work is difficult, if not impossible, to take in all at once” I think the eye aspect is so intense that you barely notice everything in the photo, like the pictures of our former president and our current president. Them also being a visual representation of the world that doesn’t feel like it’s caged in because they are the ones holding it down.
“The self depicts the drama of our own daily performance of ourselves in tension with our inner emotions that may or may not be expressed as we wish.” This talk of the self was less about my physical self but more about my identity in regards to who I am as a person without my face.
“The selfie resonates not because it is new, but because it expresses, develops, expands, and intensifies the long history of the self-portrait.”
My goal was to expose some of my historical aspects in life through musical lyrics and chants from Taino. And then expose how my identities are caged up because of patriotism and the idea that one culture is more elite than another’s.
“This densely populated work is difficult, if not impossible, to take in all at once” I think the eye aspect is so intense that you barely notice everything in the photo, like the pictures of our former president and our current president. Them also being a visual representation of the world that doesn’t feel like it’s caged in because they are the ones holding it down.
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