Poster created in Adobe Photoshop
WRITING SAMPLE:
Protesting is all about freedom of expression. If you’re not in it for freedom you’re not in it at all. There are many ways that we can express ourselves. “…some activities in modern society have more room for …. art itself is perhaps the paradigm as well as the linguistic root, heightened by the immense value we place today on individual creativity.” [1] When seeing art as protest, and as a result protest as ritual, we experience art as an action as opposed to art as an object. Through this art becomes central to every other activity. What really matters is that “… art activism challenged the barriers between public and private (artistic) identity…” [2] and still continues to do so today.
[1] James M.Jasper, The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 219.
[2] Beth Ann Handler, The Art ofActivism: Artists and Writers Protest, the Art Workers’ Coalition, and the New York Art Strike Protest the Vietnam War
(Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Publishing, 2001), 82.
REFLECTION:
I believe that in the fourth and final bridge is when art and writing truly merged together in an effortless way. The only thing connecting the final paper and the poster was that they had to relate to the gallery space in the Parsons building. Yet both projects conclude that the space urges us to collaborate as artists and strive for change. At first the research paper was extremely hard to combine elements of research, fictional character development, and integrating a Parsons environment. But in the end, it brought me to a brand new perspective of writing in relation to facts.
I have enjoyed working with my avatar character Coco Ca$h this semester, but now I feel it is time to kill her off and lay her to rest, never to return.