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Alisha Horne Rough Draft Manifesto
Essential Meaning of manifesto
a written statement that describes the policies, goals, and opinions of a person or group
The estinal question here is: why do I make art? What's the motive? What's the killer desire to sabotage my financial security for something I love? Why am I going through 5 years of college and over 175k debt? WHY- I don't know. I’ll be honest, it's all just a feeling, a driving emotion in my gut. Yes, I have actual stomach problems, but why am I here? That's not as easy as taking a blood sample and giving a diagnosis. I don’t know what the hell I am doing, but I'm doing it and for the first time in a while, I feel like I'm doing it pretty damn okay right now too. I’ve felt blind most of life, only when I create do I feel the peace and clarity in my mind. Creating, making, destroying, etc- I have to do something. I can absolutely drone ceaselessly at my desk, but I rather be ceaselessly creating (hence my instagram handle @ Ceasless_creation) Because even when I tried to stop making art, join the military- I was informed I was colorblind. I abandoned my love, for another, love and got rejected. So I crawled back into the warm embrace of art and the cold winters of New York. Here is where I really took off artistically but mentally I also plummeted because my childhood trauma remains painfully resolved but it really does make for good art. I’m driven by the need to create, and the need to create really controls my mentality in life. When I don’t create, I don't function. I feel suffocated, overwhelmed but once I get that break: whether it's a mistake, a gag, or an accomplished artistic goal- it makes me physically, mentally and emotionally feel better. I have to create, if I don't feel alive. And I've been discouraged so much in my life: bullies, doubters, haters or simply non-believers “you can’t do it!” but only when I’m creating does everything finally feel okay. And that's just a small portion of what drives me to create.
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These are a sample of my some-what final images. Last weekend the club I was attending was shooting their own promotion videos and so therefore they told me I couldn't bring my camera. I will try again this weekend as well, but if not, realistically, the combination of the party and the after party, like the effects of the party.
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final project paragraph “The Deep End”
My proposition for my final project will be expanding upon the lesson of environmental portraits, motion blur and photoshop. Ideally, it will be composed of 5 composited images taken from real life and edited in photoshop. The series will explore the physiological effects of partying. From the beginning of the night to the very end. Due to the mental and social barrier COVID created, the mentality behind partying has become desperate and vicious. Endless weekends of getting wasted mean what on a physiological level? How desperate is our youth to feel alive after a soulless pandemic ruined years of their lives? I want to capture this concoction of desperate euphoric nights and self destruction. Why is the youth so desperate for limited highs and false faces? What is attractive about a party space? The anonymity in the crowd? The blurry faces? Like the highs they chase, I will chase this into every nightclub I can in order to understand why our youth is so focused on living everyday like their last.
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trying to simulate a darkroom project in photoshop!
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somedays there are rain, some days there are sun, but there are no days were either doesn’t exist.
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Title: After and Before Edits pt. 5
Top is Edited.
Bottom is Not Edited.
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Title: Ghostly
Music Vibe: “Desire- slowed” By Hucci
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