ZachRa



This social issue is the social issue of Racism, and I think that it is bad. This picture depicts a member of the KKK in front of a burning cross. Racism is a terrible crime because by the laws we live by all of us are created equally. The burning cross shows Racism because its the cross, and that is commonly used in the catholic religion and in churches witch practice religion. So they are saying that they are wrong and they also are getting a rope ready presumably for hanging or lynching someone that is probably of the African American race. As I look at this piece I see a world of hate and crime to those that are different when in reality its the fact that we are different that makes America and the world what it is today. Also I see a terrified emotion in this piece. The terrified expression on the woman's face in the background gives off this emotion. Hatred by the red shapese for the eyes and red eyes is common in art depicting demons and evil characters.



Choosing my theme was not a difficult task but I had to think about it for a minute. I thought about my girlfriend and how her parents go out to drink every so often and come home a little drunk. When people are intoxicated they do things that they shouldn't do like fight or yell or wrestle and not the good 'ha-ha this is fun" kind of wrestle. It was the kind of how her drunk mom was lying on her and it hurt her. When i thought about that I decided to do the social issue "Alcohol Abuse". Even though she was not seriously hurt I wanted to stop all the pain caused by Alcohol Abuse. I had many problems when trying to create this work of art and work of peace. At first I had to think "How am I going to be able to put this together, keeping it simple and keeping it effective at the same time?" Well the answer did not come to me quickly. In the beginning I was told to make a clay figure, for me, this was not an easy task. I was never good at doing assessments that had a deadline far away so I kept telling myself that I had time and I would get it done. Well I did but not as soon as I should have. My first problem was that my clay figure didn't work for me as well as I would have liked it to. It kept falling apart and wasn't proportional and when I got it to the right specification that I wanted it to be it fell apart during the firing of the clay figures. I guess it just wasn't ready or something. Never the less I worked with my shattered figure and made it work for me but glazing it black and then gluing my figure together and somewhere between it shattering and me gluing it I lost a leg witch promoted another problem still. But I still kept trying, I still wanted to make this work so I said "Well maybe this was a man that was drunk and then got into a accident on the road while driving under the influence" and this worked for me and my poster, but my poster did not just snap together like two magnets it took some time and thinking. At the start of the making of my poster I tried to do something like a box with a roof and walls but I soon found out that that would not work. I found that the tri-folded poster was the predominate design of the class and that was the design that I would be using as well. First I got an old poster and put things like "Alcohol Abuse" and "Violence" on the page, this did not go over well in the field of composition. So I had to throw away this " rough draft" and start again. This time I wanted to do this right so I asked the advice of Mrs. Ruggles. She told me to first get a box and make it into a three sided poster board. So I got a knife and cut a box so that there would be three sides to it, no problem. Then I had the issue of "What do I do now?" I decided (with the advice of Mrs. Ruggles of course) that I would put two stop signs on the poster board and paint the back black and load it out with a beer bottle background in the middle and a picture of the violence alcohol can cause by showing a picture depicting a man about to strike a woman cowering in fear, and underneath it wrote in red paint "Alcohol Abuse". I think that my piece is successful in what it was meant to do. It was meant to persuade the viewers that alcohol abuse should and needs to be stopped. I think that the the black and white picture of the man's fist and the cowering woman works because it shows that alcohol does things to you and those around you that should never happen. I don't think that the figure is working. It needed more time and thought as to how it was built and what it was going to look like. If I could do this project again I would definitely do the figure better with more time and thought.