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My Final Manifesto!

Over the course of taking this class, I've done many post pertaining to art pieces, poems, music, and life. I've done posts on Women Empowerment, Abstract Art, Public Art, Love, Grief, Poetry, and Paintings. My women empowerment post represented natural beauty for black women , as the photo shows the natural hair embedded with powerful phrases and the beautiful skin. The details in the photo that are important are the words embedded in the woman's hair. The embedded words are to show that the women portrays those phrases and symbolizes meaning to them.The details that appeal to me is the natural beauty of a black from the fro to the fair skin tone and how the words embedded in her hair represents how she embodies herself to everyone around her, especially young black women/girls like myself. Abstract Art a painting created by Fernard Legar in the years 1918-1923 during his mechanical period. First look at this painting and you think its just a bunch of shapes put together and some color. It is much more than shapes and color, this painting reflects on Legar's mechanical period where he was obsessed with machines and modern technology.n Legar's painting he was trying to and I quote "bring to mind the urban architecture, new modes of transportation, and time-saving technologies that were transforming the modern world". Legar's aesthetic and fascination with modern technology and machinery has gained attention of alot of people and have called his work Tubism, as reference to the painter Pablo Picasso who was known for Cubism. Public Art a sculpture called the Cross Currents, sculptured by Albert Paley in 2001. It is currently located at Florida Gulf Coast University in the campus courtyard. Albert Paley is a world renowned metal sculptor artist and "In creating a work of art, besides my personal experience, my concern is how it emotionally and intellectually engages the viewer. A love poetry by Elizabeth Barrett Browning written in the 1850's. The love poems were written in dedication of her husband who was also a poet, Robert Browning. The meaning behind the "Love" poem is an expression of a female lover, one who is trying to demonstrate the intensity of feelings and emotions between two loved ones. I expressed my grief where I chose my theme to be Heart Broken because I recently suffered a heartbreak that I am still trying to cope with. Just recently (a little over 2 months ago) I lost my Grandfather on February 19, 2023 and it has been very hard as I am still grieving and learning to cope with his death. Ever since then I've gone down hill, with school and procrastination, hiding my feelings. Ive been throwing my self in work so I don't have to deal with it. But music has been a coping mechanism for me as it helps me calm down, and brings me hope and happiness. Although the music I chose are more based on relationship heartbreaks, I can feel there pain in there music, and I can relate to the pain. The painting to which i had to create a poem to go along with it. This painting is one of the most beautiful I've seen. The vibrant colors combine with a peaceful flow making it a strong centerpiece.Painting ''Expression'' is done by the Ukrainian artist Anastasia Kozorez. Painting with professional oil paints on canvas. The face woman is made in yellow, blue, violet and orange tones. A light color is associated with a light source or the light itself reflected in the composition. The bright colors describes the purity or strength of a colour. Bright colors are undiluted and are often associated with positive energy and intense emotions. My posts have portrayed, empowerment, love, excitement, vibrance and lose. With this course I've explored and learned many things and it has opened my perspectives on life. Although it has been a tough semester, I managed to try to get myself together with everything happening.

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Ekphrasis

Expression by Anastasia Kozorez

Colors of light

Enwrapped her body

Hues of joy

Twisted into her hair

Shades of peace

Shadowed her bones

Splashes of truth

Lingered in her eyes

Faint traces of beauty

Left her skin breathless And she was covered In the art of perfection

This painting is one of the most beautiful I've seen. The vibrant colors combine with a peaceful flow making it a strong centerpiece.Painting ''Expression'' is done by the Ukrainian artist Anastasia Kozorez. Painting with professional oil paints on canvas. The face woman is made in yellow, blue, violet and orange tones. A light color is associated with a light source or the light itself reflected in the composition. The bright colors describes the purity or strength of a colour. Bright colors are undiluted and are often associated with positive energy and intense emotions. More “erased” colors were diluted, mixed with other colors, creating a more serious, solemn or calm environment. The highlights of the warm colors like red, orange and yellow are all warm colors and are generally thought to evoke feelings of happiness, optimism, energy and passion. The contour of the cool colors like green, blue and purple are cool colors; they can be seen as calming, soothing, nurturing, subdued or even sad. Bright colors—saturated hues with a high level of lightness—evoke strong associations and meanings throughout the world, denote deities, emotions, or ideas.  In works of art, artists use color to depict and describe the subject. Artists, especially painters, utilize their knowledge of color to portray mood, light, depth, and point of view in a work of art.

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Not Seen on TV

Francis Alÿs illegally purchased a gun from a shop in downtown Mexico City.1 He then left the shop, loaded gun in hand, and walked through the streets of the city. Twelve and a half minutes later, Alÿs was pursued by the police – he was quickly apprehended, pinned against the police car, searched, and taken away for his arrest. This event constituted the first part of Alÿs’s Re-enactments (2001) – a work in which the artist sought to execute a performance and then carefully recreate it based on the documentation of the performance. The script was simple: he was to buy the gun and move through the streets until something occurred to interrupt him. Alÿs’s initial performance, from his first grasp of the gun until his arrest, was filmed by his collaborator, artist and cameraman Rafael Ortega, and this footage became the basis for the performance’s reproduction. Alÿs and Ortega replicated the initial performance the following day, a project only possible because Alÿs managed to evade punishment for his crime. It is not very common to see someone carrying a gun in their hands without fail shooting anyone, without talking to anyone and just walking with the gun in his hands. Minutes later at the time that the man was going to turn to the right hand I guess someone called the police and the police came and the hunger tried to escape quickly but it was impossible because there were four policemen who moved fast to capture him too. The most impressive thing is that the man never fired the gun, never point anyone with the gun, and also never talked to anyone while walking. It’s very strange because what could have been his point to do this? Finally, I don’t understand how a person can go to a firearms shop and buy a gun from any other type of weapon with such ease.

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Tragedy Scripted and Staged

Act III Scene I : A room in the castle

In this scene Hamlet is in a state of shock and grief as he has discovered that his father has been murdered by his uncle. Throughout this soliloquy, which happens at the start of Act 3 Scene 1, he thinks about whether he should face life’s hardships head on or end them by dying. Hamlet is alone on stage as he asks these questions about his purpose and life. You can take a look at an extract from this scene and watch it in performance here. Using these steps, remember to look at it line by line and if you’re looking at the speech for the first time don’t worry if you don’t understand everything at once.

In the first place, Hamlet doesn’t talk directly about what he’s really talking about. When he questions whether it is better “to be, or not to be,” the obvious implication is, “Should I kill myself?” The entire soliloquy strongly suggests that he is toying with suicide and perhaps trying to work up his courage to do it. But at no point does he say that he is in pain or discuss why he wants to kill himself. In fact, he never says “I” or “me” in the entire speech. He’s not trying to “express” himself at all; instead, he poses the question as a matter of philosophical debate.

When he claims that everybody would commit suicide if they weren’t uncertain about the afterlife, it sounds as if he’s making an argument to convince an imaginary listener about an abstract point rather than directly addressing how the question applies to him. Now, it’s perfectly ordinary for characters in plays to say something other than what they mean to other characters (this suggests that they are consciously hiding their true motives), but Hamlet does it when he’s talking to himself. This creates the general impression that there are things going on in Hamlet’s mind that he can’t think about directly.

While we’re on the subject of what’s going on inside Hamlet’s mind, consider his encounter with Ophelia. This conversation, closely watched by Claudius and Polonius, is, in fact, a test. It’s supposed to establish whether Hamlet’s madness stems from his lovesickness over Ophelia. Before we, the audience, see this encounter, we already think we know more than Claudius does: we know that Hamlet is only acting crazy, and that he’s doing it to hide the fact that he’s plotting against (or at least investigating) his uncle. Therefore, it can’t be true that he’s acting mad because of his love for Ophelia. But witnessing Hamlet’s encounter with her throws everything we think we know into question.

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Anatomy of a Scene

The movies I chose from both lists were Moonlight a drama film released in 2016 and Black Klansman a comedy/drama/crime released in 2016.

Black Klansman stars Ron Stallworth who becomes the first African-American detective on the Colorado Springs Police Department, but his arrival is greeted with skepticism and open hostility by the department’s rank and file. Undaunted, Stallworth resolves to make a name for himself and a difference in his community. He bravely sets out on a dangerous mission: infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan.  Posing as a racist extremist, Stallworth contacts the group and soon finds himself invited into its inner circle. He even cultivates a relationship with the Klan’s Grand Wizard, David Duke , who praises Ron’s commitment to the advancement of White America. With the undercover investigation growing ever more complex, Stallworth’s colleague, Flip Zimmerman , poses as Ron in face-to-face meetings with members of hate group, gaining insider’s knowledge of a deadly plot. Together, Stallworth and Zimmerman team up to take down the organization whose real aim is to sanitize its violent rhetoric to appeal to the mainstream. The re-telling strikes a unique tone, like a punchy comedy on a serious mission–serving justice, empowerment, and truth in the face of racism and oppression. With the real Colorado Springs an impractical filming location, Lee and his team recreated exteriors of the mid-western setting in Ossining, a town 35 miles north of New York City.Given that the film’s main police precinct is a central part of the story, the production team decided to build the setting on sound stages in Brooklyn. They sought a run-down look that made the place appear to pre-date even the story’s 1970s time frame.

Moonlight, a look at three defining chapters in the life of Chiron, a young black man growing up in Miami. His epic journey to manhood is guided by the kindness, support and love of the community that helps raise him. A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood and an unstable family life. As we follow his life through his teenage years and into manhood – the film becomes a much broader inspection into identity as a whole. Showing how his damaged upbringing with drug-addict mother Paula, and high school tussles shape his road ahead. We described the film as ‘extremely moving’ which ‘speaks of the struggles of black men in marginalised communities, of the push and pull of nature versus nurture, and finding yourself – no matter how long it takes.’ Moonlight is a groundbreaking piece of cinema that reverberates with deep compassion and universal truths. Anchored by extraordinary performances from a tremendous ensemble cast, Barry Jenkins’s staggering, singular vision is profoundly moving in its portrayal of the moments, people, and unknowable forces that shape our lives and make us who we are. Moonlight is set in the impoverished Liberty City area of Miami, shown in brilliant, luminous colours, and takes place in three acts. 

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The Godfather and La Jetée

The Godfather know as one of the greatest films of all times, his mob drama, based on Mario Puzo's novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone . When the don's youngest son, Michael , reluctantly joins the Mafia, he becomes involved in the inevitable cycle of violence and betrayal. The film portrays themes of crime, justice, power, family loyalty and betrayal. 

The La Jetée is a film where a  man is sent back and forth and in and out of time in an experiment that attempts to unravel the fate and the solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world during the aftermath of WW3. The experiment results in him getting caught up in a perpetual reminiscence of past events that are recreated on an airport’s viewing pier. The themes portrayed in this film are trauma, time, memory and perception. 

Both films similar techniques to achieve its artistic goals, as dramatic films portraying a tone of suspense to the audiences, use of dramatic lighting and sound.

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Colors

Red

Red " The color of passion and energy. Red draws attention like no other color and radiates a strong and powerful energy that motivates us to take action. It is also linked to sexuality and stimulates deep and intimate passion. Red is ubiquitously used to warn and signal caution and danger". Simply put, the color red can’t be described in a word or two. It embodies so many wonderful qualities, including love, kindness, and familiarity. On the other hand, it can resurrect feelings of despair and melancholy. In between its positive and negative traits lies cultural interpretations, subliminal messaging, and warning indicators.

Yellow

Yellow "The color of happiness and optimism. Yellow is a cheerful and energetic color that brings fun and joy to the world. It makes learning easier as it affects the logical part of the brain, stimulating mentality and perception. It inspires thought and curiosity and boosts enthusiasm and confidence". An interesting mix of bubbly and threatening, the color yellow sparks a broad spectrum of emotions. While it can be playful and radiant, yellow can also be unforgiving and foreboding, which makes it a wildly fascinating hue. The many facets of the color yellow be speak its incredibly impactful spirit.

Blue

Blue "The color of trust and loyalty. Blue has a calming and relaxing effect on our psyche, that gives us peace and makes us feel confident and secure. It dislikes confrontation and too much attention, but it is an honest, reliable and responsible color and you can always count on its support". Where calmness is present, so too is the color blue. In addition to its peacefulness, blue also offers direction and empathy. Though these attributes are promising, blue is also fragile and somewhat cowardly. These varying qualities make blue the perfectly balanced shade that so many love, trust, and adore.

Purple

Purple " The color of spirituality and imagination. Purple inspires us to divulge our innermost thoughts, which enlightens us with wisdom of who we are and encourages spiritual growth. It is often associated with royalty and luxury, and its mystery and magic sparks creative fantasies". Powerful, insightful, and tenderhearted, purple boasts numerous good qualities. On a more negative note, purple can also be overly sensitive and unnecessarily vigilant. Fortunately, the good outweighs the bad when it comes to this marvelous wonder. With its uplifting spirit and undeniable beauty, purple entices with ease.

Black

Black" The color of power and sophistication. Black is an incredibly strong and intimidating color that exudes authority and makes us feel secure and protected. Often seen at formal and prestigious events, this mysterious marvel arouses and seduces our senses with its elegance and sexiness". The color black is wildly misunderstood. It awakens dark and depressing thoughts, but it means no harm. It yearns to be accepted but has made peace with its unfavorable reputation. Far more than a foreboding color, black is also powerful, striking, and a source of protection.

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Heart Broken

Karma by Queen Naija (R&B)

Karma was a song inspired by one of Queen's original song called "Medicine". She made the song to express how she felt after she had been in a marriage of 3 years with a child that was crumbling due to infidelity by her former husband. In her song she explains how she's always been there form event in "the darkest moments" and it wasn't enough for him. She expresses the support she gave him but still wasn't satisfied.

Heartbreak Anniversary by Giveon (R&B, Electronic, Soul)

Heartbreak Anniversary is a song based a relationship breakup, and the song is about getting over an ex, it is was poetic. He originally came up with the song when he heard music while walking into the studio and he said "this sounds like an I got my heart broke a year ago song,’ and I keep feeling that pain when it comes around". In his song he explains how " Balloons are deflated

Guess they look lifeless like me

We miss you on your side of the bed, mmm

Still got your things here

And they stare at me like souvenirs

Don't wanna let you out my head". He expresses how he felt by comparing hisself to deflated balloons and that he misses her and that stuff she left behind reminding him of her.

Ball without You by 21 Savage (Rap)

Ball without you reflects on a relationship that he lost and expresses feeling betrayal. 21 Savage contemplates his capacity for love and whether love or loyalty matters most in a relationship. The song shows how he gets emotional about a woman he's no longer with. As he says in his song " You runnin' 'round drinkin' liquor Takin' pictures 'cause you miss me (I know you miss me)" expressing that he believe that she is doing this to gain his attention and he interprets it as she misses him.

Change by Deftone (Rock)

Change reflects an individual is actually enjoying the experience, as in ‘feeling so alive’. He takes this person, imprisons him or her and ‘pulls off their wings’. Or put more simply, he stifles and takes away the source of their newfound joy and then ‘laughs’ about it. He meets his fate at the hands of the addressee. And then in the aftermath, the latter once again reclaims that feeling of happiness which Chino previously stole away. Rather this piece reads more distinctly as sort of a revenge fantasy or story of justice, if you will, in which the vocalist clearly does the subject wrong but eventually ends up on the wrong side of a gun, while the addressee, who was his victim, remains chillin".

All I wanted by Paramore (Rock)

All I wanted reflects a girl expressing her love to her lover. But, the lover never really got that she loved them so much. She is thinking about when she first realized that she fell in love with them (go back to the beginning and relive the start). She loved her lover for who they are. It wasn't about money or anything else. It was all about the love she has for lover!

The Heart Wants What it Wants by Selena Gomez (Pop)

The Heart Wants What it Wants reflects one of Selena's former relationship with a well known artist. The song expresses  love is a powerful emotion that overrides any logical thoughts or advice that one may receive. Even when you know it may not be the best or healthiest thing for you, the heart still wants what it wants. The song also touches on the idea that when it comes to love, there isn't always a happy ending or guaranteed success, but that doesn't make the feelings any less real. It can be difficult to deny true emotions even when the path ahead may be uncertain. Such as when you are romantically or sexually attracted to someone, then no amount of logic or reason can dissuade you.

I chose my theme to be Heart Broken because I recently suffered a heartbreak that I am still trying to cope with. Just recently (a little over 2 months ago) I lost my Grandfather on February 19, 2023 and it has been very hard as I am still grieving and learning to cope with his death. Ever since then I've gone down hill, with school and procrastination, hiding my feelings. Ive been throwing my self in work so I don't have to deal with it. But music has been a coping mechanism for me as it helps me calm down, and brings me hope and happiness. Although the music I chose are more based on relationship heartbreaks, I can feel there pain in there music, and I can relate to the pain.

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Plotting

A regular Sunday I thought, as I woke up to check my phone for notifications. I spent some time in bed looking through my phone checking my social medias, messages and any missing calls I may have. After checking my phone I got up to get ready for my day. I fixed my bed, clipped my hair up and went and took a shower. I had the whole day planned a head of me, in a happy mood. After my shower , I got dressed and grabbed my keys to go pick up my little cousin. As I arrived, I greeted my grandparents, and proceeded to prepare my little cousins bag and find her a dress to wear to church. We finish preparing her bag and finding a dress and head back to my house. We get back to my house and I set everything on my bed so that its prepped for church. I then grab my materials so that I could do her hair. As Im doing I her hair, we pick a movie to watch. I then see my dad in a rush and looking for his keys. I ask him "Whats wrong and what is he looking for?" He said " That he had to take my grandfather to the hospital and was looking for his keys. At first I wasn't phased that my grandfather was going to the hospital because I know he is sick, but I had seen him on Friday and he was perfectly fine. So, i just assumed it wasn't anything too serious. I then proceeded with finishing my cousins hair. I went on with my day, and my mom came home to tell me that my grandfather had another stroke and I was shock because he was fine when we had visited. But I still went on with my day wondering if he was alright, I went and picked up my grandmother on my moms side of the family, so that I could do her makeup for church, since her birthday was the day before, I wanted her to dress up to go to church and to take pictures. As I am doing her makeup, my mom mentions to her that my other grandfather had a stroke, and she was in disbelief. I continue my grandmothers makeup and my mother goes and gets dressed for church. She then comes out, and stands in my door way and she yells out that my grandfather died. I looked at her and I said what are you talking about and said thats not funny. But she was serious and I started crying, in disbelief because that couldn't be true. I broke down in tears not believing what I heard, because I had just seen my grandfather a day ago. You really never know what you have until you lose it. My grandfather was a caring, and loving person who raised me alongside my parents, but I know he's in a better place away from all the suffering and pain.

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Love

This is a poem called love by Elizabeth Barrett Browning written in the 1850's. The love poems were written in dedication of her husband who was also a poet, Robert Browning. The meaning behind the "Love" poem is an expression of a female lover, one who is trying to demonstrate the intensity of feelings and emotions between two loved ones. The lines to whom they are addressed to, in the form of a poem, is to a speaker, though he remains silent throughout the poem. Elizabeth Barrett begins with a line “We cannot live, except thus mutually/ We alternate…” which clearly indicates the intimate acquaintance of the speaker with her male lover. The love felt by either of them acts as stimulus for the other, she believes. And she continues to pour her thoughts saying that when they bear their virtue onward without a forethought and with full of invocation, they live their life in true sense, implying that the mutual understanding and assistance between the two is what helps her lead her life in its true sense. The speaker uses the personification of “sun and sea” to express the brightness and calmness of the future that she opines to be lying ahead. In the following lines, the speaker ascertains the truth of love. She says that it is only when a soul, with its wish and conscience, reaches out for another soul, that the conscience and concentration make a mere life turn into a life accompanied with love. These lines imply the intensity of love, the depth with which one can make love. It enforces the fact that love is the ultimate truth, the logos, to say, that can only be realised if it is felt from the inner unconscious depths of oneself, that which cannot be thought and made possible through rationale. Love, she believes, can make one’s life blend with perfection, making it wholesome, for Love is the truth. To encapsulate the truthfulness of this feeling, she compares it to the “nature’s magnet-heat” that “rounds pole with pole.”

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Home

I live in a 1,425 square foot family home with my parents and my younger brother. I grew up in this house and have made so many memories while living in it. When first entering my house, we come across the living room, which is the biggest room in the house. As you continue to move more in, on the right you will come across a restroom, closet and my bedroom. My bedroom is the second biggest bedroom in the house after my parents. It is and average size room with a closet. As you proceed further back into the house you come across the kitchen on the left and a door that leads to the laundry room and the garage. And on the right is my parents bedroom with a bathroom and walk in closet. And straight ahead we have the dinning room and on the left of the dinning room we have my brothers room , which is a small bedroom and it has a door that leads straight to the backyard. My home is very homey and welcoming not just to us but friends and family. My home is not cramped or uncomfortable, it is very roomy. The house is bright and open feeling toward us and our guests . The house does not feel rundown, because over the years we have made changes to the house like making the ceiling high, re painting the inside, getting new floor tiles etc. My house feels unique, although everyones house is unique in there on ways. Another domestic architecture that I have inhabited is my cousins house. She lives in 1, 250 square foot home currently a 4 bedroom and 2 bathroom home and a patio. When walking in you first see the living room on the right and you continue you see the dinning room straight ahead and on the left is a hall way that leads to 3 of the 4 bedrooms, 1 of the 2 bathrooms and a closet and further back closer to the dinning room on the right is the kitchen and as you continue the 4 th room is straight ahead and the garage on the right and the patio on the left. The houses are different from the number of beds to the size in square feet. I would prefer my home just cause of space. My cousins house is more cramped than spacious. I do enjoy both house because they both do achieve there goals in different ways, my house may be spacious, roomy and comfortable, but I still feel that my cousins home resembles what i feel just in a different perspective.

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Public Art

This piece of art is called the Cross Currents, sculptured by Albert Paley in 2001. It is currently located at Florida Gulf Coast University in the campus courtyard. Albert Paley is a world renowned metal sculptor artist and "In creating a work of art, besides my personal experience, my concern is how it emotionally and intellectually engages the viewer. Through the creative process I have developed a personal visual vocabulary fundamentally based in symbolism and metaphor which is implicit in my work." The Cross Current sculptor is an "8 x 12 foot wide, 17, 000-pound structure is just a jumble of colorful shapes. But as you stare, the serrated teeth of an open-mouthed alligator, shards of sunlight, the fringe of palm fronds and the rough silhouette of a palm trunk slowly emerge". This was the first metal sculptor to get  the coveted the AIA Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honor awarded by the American Institute of Architects to a non-architect. Originally the sculptor was meant o be placed in between the library and Reed Hall on the FGCU campus but there was controversy on placement of the sculptor. Paley flew down personally and meet with the FCGU president to find a place for the sculptor on campus. Albert Paley was nominated to build the sculptor by Karl H. Hollander, the executive director of the Lee County Alliance for the Arts. An article quotes that " Paley not only employed an expressionist style in his sculpture’s design, he repeated that theme as he hand-painted Cross Current‘s component pieces in bright Florida colors: flamingo pink, sky blue and the yellows, reds and oranges associated with the Gulf Coast’s colorful sunsets".

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Abstract Images

This painting was created by Fernard Legar in the years 1918-1923 during his mechanical period. First look at this painting and you think its just a bunch of shapes put together and some color. It is much more than shapes and color, this painting reflects on Legar's mechanical period where he was obsessed with machines and modern technology. In Legar's painting he was trying to and I quote "bring to mind the urban architecture, new modes of transportation, and time-saving technologies that were transforming the modern world". Legar's aesthetic and fascination with modern technology and machinery has gained attention of alot of people and have called his work Tubism, as reference to the painter Pablo Picasso who was known for Cubism. Now when I first laid my eyes on the image I assumed the image looked like pipelines connecting together, like the pipes you would see associated with trains, cars, buildings etc. The painting shouts out technology, mechanics, and machinery. The painting fascinates me because of it complexity, dimension and pattern, as the shapes in the painting come together to form a beautiful masterpiece. It is very eye catching. The coordination of the colors and the different variety of shapes bring the art work into reality. The curves, dimensions and pattern come together so way and pop out. During Legar's mechanical period he has created beautiful pieces and has fascinated people with is work including me. I would love to see more of his work and learn more of his background. I believe his work can influence today's technology.

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Women Empowerment

This photo represents women empowerment, beauty and self-love. It represents natural beauty for black women , as the photo shows the natural hair embedded with powerful phrases and the beautiful skin. The details in the photo that are important are the words embedded in the woman's hair. The embedded words are to show that the women portrays those phrases and symbolizes meaning to them. The details that appeal to me is the natural beauty of a black from the fro to the fair skin tone and how the words embedded in her hair represents how she embodies herself to everyone around her, especially young black women/girls like myself. This photo speaks to me because it empowers younger women and girls to accept their natural beauty and to understand that it not just hair and skin but it's about being strong, unique, bold, courageous and talented as the image shows these traits. Nowadays women feel as if they have to change what they look like or who they are just to feel accepted. This photo shows that I should be happy with who I am and what I look like, and don't care what anyone else thinks of me. To show that I am enough and to love myself of my natural beauty. That doesn't just go for black women but for all women no matter the skin color or hair texture. The themes that this work raises is that words can implement self love and identity. The words embedded in the woman's hair symbolizes that self love and identity that she is representing to these woman. It's to show love to yourself in your natural beauty and to not feel ashamed of it, but to express your love so that other woman are influenced by a beautiful thing. We are not alone in this.

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About Me

Hi everyone my name is Tanesha, I am 19 years old. I graduated form Lorenzo Walker Technical High School in May 2022, and I now attend FSW as a full time student. I work in an independent assisted living facility as a server since 2019. I took the Practical Nursing Program at Lorenzo Walker and have received my certification. In there future I would love to work in the medical field, partially in OB-GYN! Outside of school I like to be around family and friends, and I am very involved in church. Im very out going, courageous and honest. Im looking forward to sharing and expressing my ideas and thoughts with everyone.