So i'm bored during winter break and I've been contemplating many things.

I need a change, (Obama!) lol no but 4real I making moves to change my life scenario soon more details to come?

Also I've been wondering if I'll ever be as cool or as legendary as..

Public Art

Really? FaceValue

Glue, Crayon,Pennies, Beads

When people  are walking they tend to either to look ahead or down. When walking if one finds a penny and they pick it up it kind of brightens  there day or at least makes them a little cheerful or childlike. So I place me piece in a place where I noticed a lot of people walk by everyday. They walk fast and they're  focused on where they're going not looking around at the world around them.
 The saying  " See a penny pick it up all day long you have good luck". Is the text in my piece and also this popular saying inspired it, because it's something that I say when I pick up a penny, like a ritual almost like if I don't say it the penny isn't lucky. A lot of people now a days think pennies have no value, but everything starts with one. I put the pennies face up because I was told that they'll only bring you luck if there face up not down. I want others to notice it and look around at the world when there walking. To change there mindset by having them looking for little details in objects or look for things where they never would have thought of looking.  They statement that my piece is making is that even the normal everyday things have value and shouldn't go unnoticed.

the sad thing is though due to the snow, it's gone.

womp womp

This topic of identity as been brought up a lot in the past couple of weeks in my life. I've been wondering how I'll be when I grown up ,will I change? I hope that I never do , I mean I hope that I grow as a person but I hope that my point of view doesn't change I hope that I don't get jaded by the world and because a superficial Thomas Kincdade type of artist. That would be sad, where would my point of view go where do lost point of views go?I used to to think of the art world a free from racism and everything else negative that I don't think in the world. I still do but I'm starting to realize that racism is relevant in every career . However artist maybe have the upper hand in changing things. They /We present work in hope a paradigm shift and the viewers may think its controversial and they get what they get out of it hopeful it will change a bit of there point of views of how they view the world.Daniel Joesph Martinez, Museum Tags really stuck with me, It made me laugh at first and them to hear the stories about the museum stickers and most of the people at the show being white was great. It made me wonder if the viewers, white people in this case think of being anything else but white. Also, I think that he brings up a prevalent issue up in Hispanic cultures. The "Whitening", of the culture, I just don't understand families where the parents only speak spanish don't know very much english and there kids know english and not spanish. How does that work? It's confusing but it's overlooked because they came here for a better life does a better life include losing one cultural identity ?No for me.As a photographer I look up to Lorna Simpson and Carrie Mae Weems . There photos are so strong in composition and the messages that the convey are relevant to there audience. Although the text may sadden or make people uncomfortable I find it humorous. I like to see peoples faces when they read there text, like in Carrie Mae Weems , Mirror Mirror when the text was read I laughed but the rest of the room was quiet.and people were uncomfortable and looked down or away.I hope to create images like them and be a voice for others like me as they are to me. Even though there work was before I was born.Rather it be because of the generation I'm growing up in or not. I love in you face work , take you outside of normal thinking patterns type work. I know it's not a genre or whatever but it's one now. I found out about Kehinde Wiley form a video a couple of months ago and thought wow this is pure genius. I'm so proud of my generation, I would of never thought that I'd see paintings like his but I'm glad to see that in my lifetime there's an artist like him. What I love most about his work is that the paintings that he draws from were people that back them they identified with and the paintings that he has created and paintings that people can recognize and I hope that this will inspire and create more greatness for the generations to come.Here's the link to the video:http://current.com/items/7....6335342/kehinde_wiley.htm

Carrie Mae Weems Mirror Mirror 1987 silver print



Daniel Joesph Martinez Museum Tags 1993 museum tags