Inspiring.

This website is charming, it shows how a mother and an artist is accepting of change. By allowing her 4 year old daughter to finish some of her drawings, Mica Angela Hendricks created a quirky new twist on her old art. As an artist we have to learn to let go, once we let go we can accept and potentially enjoy or learn from what the next artist will do. Learning begins outside of your comfort zone, and this is an amazing example of it. Myla (4 years old) and Mica creates art together, its a team effort. Mica draws the head, Myla draws the body and background then the drawing goes back to Mica to add a splash of colour. I think it is a great way to teach Myla to share and accept what her mom is going to do with her work after she is finished with it and vise-versa.  

Social Suicide and Sacrifices.

Social Suicide is when a person doesn’t fit into that society’s social norms or expectations, becoming a social outcast, killing their reputation. Social Sacrifice is when an individual changes who they are with the intent to fit in with a certain social circle. Everyone goes though the various degrees of social suicide, and this project will just be based on a combination of my experiences or of the people close to me (friends and family). I plan to make it mostly from a female point of view, because it’s something that I am more aware of. I find it very interesting that every ones perspective of social suicide is always different, based on that individuals comfort levels in certain environments.  I have experienced minor social suicide and major social sacrifice through the past 8 years.

I would like to create a piece on how media and social media can be a form of suicide. Facebook for an example, the basis of the website is profiles of people who judge other (“Liking”) the more “likes” you get the more popular that person is, which they may not even exist or that’s not how the person actually is in real life. The brick being thrown through your window is a metaphor for Facebook, usually someone throws a brick through your window because you did something bad or they don’t like, similar to Facebook, they can do and say whatever they want to you and you cant really do much about it. I would like to portray this through a collage or sculpture.

Barbie has always been a iconic figure to represent beauty. Young girls have grown up playing with Barbie, unconsciously striving to be like her when they are older (pretty, tall, nice, lots of friends, great boyfriend, etc.). Girls are taught that Barbie is the ideal woman, what if she has some insecurities of her own? I would like to portray this through a painting.