Activism in Art:

For this project, I chose a topic
that was close to heart: Poverty. I had to figure out a way to
turn paintings into a 3-D project. This assignment was a challenge,
because I had a very limited amount of time to paint 5 paintings and come
up with a creative analogy to use in order to get across a creative and
quirky message. I ended up painting a picture of two little guys starving,
a teenage guy with a revealing spine and rib cage, and two older guys,
one sleeping on the ground, the other nearly collapsing. These pictures all
had pretty strong compositions by themselves; they all contained one subject
and had a cohesive color scheme. Once, all the paintings were finished,
I managed to get fake fruit to emphasize the topic.
The idea was that we have fake food, and these people (portrayed in the
paintings) have nothing. If I could change anything, I would add female
figures (because all the included subjects were male) to make it more realistic
and universal. All in all, I am satisfied with my results. I found a new love for doing
collective series instead of one piece. It was also my first time doing so and it
was a lot of fun figuring out how to turn 2-D into 3-D.