Albano

I decided to create this work of art because we wanted to capture the people that we are closest to, their personalities in a form that shows their individuality yet at the same time show that some how some way they are one in the same.

We made this art piece by extensively measuring how long we thought would be reasonable to capture their image and then we told then to just lay down in any pose. So this is what they did and then we traced them and then we brainstormed how we could mix some dark colors like black and gray with each other and contrast it before we contrasted it with a warm color. So we thought to outline them in gray and anywhere they overlap we painted gray. Then we went with the pattern of black and white. Now we have to finish the background.

This piece is made out of poster paper, black and white paint, as well as the mixture of the both (gray).

What this piece means to me is that we are all our own people with our own personalities. This is shown in our character, how we stand, act, talk, etc. However there is also that one thing besides the whole "we are all human" quality that makes us all one in the same.



This quarter the poster was finished we added hand printe to it as well as a blue background. The hands we thought would make it something that would make the students and staff connected to our art project. Since a staff member had asked we have decided to dedicate it to her.



Currently, I as well as two other students are creating a poster to be displayed about stereotypes. This project has been extensively brainstormed and now we are putting it together. We feel as though many stereotypes come from many different cultures but yet why?, are we not all equal.

This is being made in the form of a collage, with poster paper and cut outs. We are going to add visual representations of these stereotypes. At the top and the bottom of the poster is written a quote by Chinua Achebe.

What this art piece means to me is very simple. We are all equal, hence the cut out of the United States in the center, but yet we are all classified by stereotypes and things that "represent" where our ancestors come from. This is what it means and this is why we are trying to visually depict this to the school community.

These are not all of the pieces that I have created this quarter, they are simply pieces of art that were inspired by the other pieces that I created. I created these by painting random things on paper, and then I accidentally got some paint on the pallet, outside of the little dish. So then I started to just paint the pallet, after the pallet was painted I drizzled the solid unmixed color on top.

Another piece that I created was on a piece of tile I engraved the Chinese symbol for strength. I then painted the character red and the outside all black.This means a lot to me because one must have strength to even open their eyes in the morning, or to even close their eyes at night. Strength is something that we all have, whether we realize it or not, but we are all strong.

This art piece is made out of a paint pallet, and several basic colors. The colors were then mixed and used to paint the pallet, and I kept on repeating this process.This art piece has a very simple and basic meaning to me. When I think about it and look at it, it reminds me that I am not as organized as I think I am and that I can be creative.

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Never play with your food! Sorry Mom, we could not help ourselves. Food is so universal, but is was not so common to make someone into food. This is something that we continued on for classes at a time. Only one class was devoted to each food at a time. Then we began to work on a collage of people, this was kind of like a part 2 to the mural that was created in the beginning of the year.

What we did was take a volunteer and then create them into a food that we were randomly inspired by that day. Then we go to work. We got some paper and started to wrap it around the person. Sometimes I would help with the paper, other times I would just tape and take pictures. However, I was apart of the product. Then we decided that the year was coming to an end and we really wanted to create something that visually represented the year for us. We did this by grabbing some black poster paper. Then we each laid on it, we were each traced in a different pose (I am the blue one, upside down).

Food is universal, no matter what we all have to eat, but what we eat varies. What we eat is visually shown by us some how. Hence, you are what you eat. The meaning is one of the most cliché meanings, however it is what it means. Our end of year people collage is what I wished that we would have prioritized and finished. We had gone through so many ideas but the one that we all agreed on and liked the most was that in the middle we were going to put all of the names of those in the junior class in the center body and on the two bodies (one on each side) we were making a collage of papers and words. The meaning behind this was that "this is what we created." Since it was never finished it takes on a deeper meaning... "we are never finished creating."