#DefendDACA
1. Define which techniques you tried and mastered? Struggled?
With this project i decided to go to the photography aspect of art. The technique that i tried in this piece was hyper-detailed close ups. Something I struggled with was to get a good enough close up where the audience is able to really see any emotion or feelings from just looking at the face of the close up.
2. How did you draw inspiration from other artists techniques or aesthetics in your work? In what ways did you derive meaning or gain historical perspectives from their work? Why these artists?
In Project 2 I drew inspiration from both Annie Leibowitz and Martin Schoeller. I mainly got inspired by Schoeller simply because I was fascinated with how much details and how much information you can get from just a simple close up, I wanted to capture my audience attention with Schoeller's technique and have them wonder what is it that my brother is actually feeling.
3. Describe the evolution of your piece. Decisions made. Compositional elements.
While in the process of deciding what to make my project about i was in a internal conflict because I didn't know how to go about this, I really wanted to focus on DACA but i wasn't sure how i wanted to go about it. At first i thought of creating a drawing and searching up ideas/pictures of how i can represent what ending DACA caused, but the more i thought of the piece the less i started liking the idea of creating a drawing, instead I spoke with Ms. O'Ryan to get more ideas and from that she helped me decide on using pictures to express the effect, in addition i went deeper into how DACA affects me personally and decided to use my brother as the example and thought that if i were to have a type of Q/A with picture i would be able to really capture the feelings that come from the end of DACA. From there I created question in which i would be asking and capturing a picture of and by that i mean i would capture of picture of my brother mid thought, which would reveal true emotions towards the topic.
4. If you could consider doing something over, explain why you would do this and what you would do next time?
I'm actually not sure on what i would consider on doing over, but if I had to choose something I would again would chose to change my thought process. I need to definitely need to stop coming up with ideas that won't be used and use my time on thinking of something that i really want to do for the piece. I would've definitely gave myself more time to think of what I really wanted to do.
5. Elaborate on how this piece links with your other pieces? What is the common thread?
This piece links with my other pieces because just like stated in my first project, I plan on focusing my pieces all around my Mexican culture and this piece will link with the rest of my works because as a Latina and as the only US Citizen in my family our culture has really impacted our lives, especially that of my brother's. I decided to dedicate project 2 to the decision that is ending DACA, something that is extremely important to my brother and essentially to the rest of the family as well. DACA was something given to those kids who crossed the border at a young age, my brother came to the United States from Mexico as little boy.
With this project i decided to go to the photography aspect of art. The technique that i tried in this piece was hyper-detailed close ups. Something I struggled with was to get a good enough close up where the audience is able to really see any emotion or feelings from just looking at the face of the close up.
2. How did you draw inspiration from other artists techniques or aesthetics in your work? In what ways did you derive meaning or gain historical perspectives from their work? Why these artists?
In Project 2 I drew inspiration from both Annie Leibowitz and Martin Schoeller. I mainly got inspired by Schoeller simply because I was fascinated with how much details and how much information you can get from just a simple close up, I wanted to capture my audience attention with Schoeller's technique and have them wonder what is it that my brother is actually feeling.
3. Describe the evolution of your piece. Decisions made. Compositional elements.
While in the process of deciding what to make my project about i was in a internal conflict because I didn't know how to go about this, I really wanted to focus on DACA but i wasn't sure how i wanted to go about it. At first i thought of creating a drawing and searching up ideas/pictures of how i can represent what ending DACA caused, but the more i thought of the piece the less i started liking the idea of creating a drawing, instead I spoke with Ms. O'Ryan to get more ideas and from that she helped me decide on using pictures to express the effect, in addition i went deeper into how DACA affects me personally and decided to use my brother as the example and thought that if i were to have a type of Q/A with picture i would be able to really capture the feelings that come from the end of DACA. From there I created question in which i would be asking and capturing a picture of and by that i mean i would capture of picture of my brother mid thought, which would reveal true emotions towards the topic.
4. If you could consider doing something over, explain why you would do this and what you would do next time?
I'm actually not sure on what i would consider on doing over, but if I had to choose something I would again would chose to change my thought process. I need to definitely need to stop coming up with ideas that won't be used and use my time on thinking of something that i really want to do for the piece. I would've definitely gave myself more time to think of what I really wanted to do.
5. Elaborate on how this piece links with your other pieces? What is the common thread?
This piece links with my other pieces because just like stated in my first project, I plan on focusing my pieces all around my Mexican culture and this piece will link with the rest of my works because as a Latina and as the only US Citizen in my family our culture has really impacted our lives, especially that of my brother's. I decided to dedicate project 2 to the decision that is ending DACA, something that is extremely important to my brother and essentially to the rest of the family as well. DACA was something given to those kids who crossed the border at a young age, my brother came to the United States from Mexico as little boy.