Silke



I chose the social issue breast cancer. The reason why I picked it is because I know a lot people who had breast cancer some of them are close family members. Since it wasn't easy to find good and school appropriate pictures I decided to change my social issue from just simple breast cancer to breast cancer walks. After the change of my theme it was possible to me to start printing out pictures and quotes. Choosing breast cancer walks was the right decision because I found myself thinking a lot about what I could do to support the people I know with breast cancer. I read a lot about other peoples experiences and I will use my new knowledge to help. After I had my pictures printed I started working on my figures. I decided to make three walking women to connect it with a picture which shows a big group of people walking to celebrate breast cancer survivors. It took me a long time to finish my figures. The sad part is that only one of my figures partly survived the firing. I had to clue the figure back together and a big piece in the back is completely missing. Mrs. Ruggles gave me an old figure, since I only had one and not enough time to make a new one. But I didn't want only have one person walking. I painted both of my figures with paint because i didn't had enough time to fire them again. I had no issues with my poster which makes me proud because usually I mess up the backgrounds. I used a lot of different ways to make the poster interesting to look at. I only used the colors black, white and pink to make it different from all the other posters and to show that i support breast cancer walks I really like my background for this piece because I know I worked hard on it. I am still surprised that everything worked out so well, but I am a little sad that I couldn't use all of my own figures. It is harder to make those clay figures than I thought it would be, mine kept breaking apart and there was nothing I could do about it. I do believe that my poster and my figures show that I support breast cancer walks because I put only positive things on my poster and and i try to encourage people to spent their money for something important and helpful like breast cancer support. If I would be able to do it again the only thing I would change I would work a lot harder on my figures to make sure I can use figures I did by myself. When I look at this painting I don't only see the social issue homeless people, I also see that people who live on the street have problems with finding something to eat. I do believe that the painter thinks that homeless people don't have a good life and will die because they don't have enough food and clothes. On the picture is a man who does look kind of old but I don't think he is. There are a lot of little lines who show that this man is shivering maybe he is only cold. His face shows me that he is in pain maybe from not eating enough. The emotions of the piece are cold and lonely. I get sad when I look at the picture and have to think about how many young and old people have to live on the street today. It makes me also sad to know that for most of them there is no way around it because they lost their jobs or even chose not to work and just live on the street. The artist brings all those emotions to me because she uses only a black simple color which make the painting look unimportant like a homeless man would be. The painting isn't unimportant like it looks because it says so much with all the little, different thick, dark black lines. All the lines make the man look lonely, unhappy, old and cold.