10 Grade Media Studies

Artist Statement:

The main idea that I tried to spread throughout my four small collages was the mixture + clash of vanity, creativity and freedom. The first one is about my generation. The Shel Silverstein drawing that is in half is about all the judgment that we face. The poem is titled “The Thinker of Tender Thoughts” and you can see that the man has all these interesting and great ideas but when people see his hair—the representation of the thoughts—they laugh at him and so he cuts his hair off to become like everyone else. There are tidbits of newspaper writings that bandage the girl on the right with the drawing together. These are some of the articles that I found in newspapers that made me feel like I was out of touch with everything that was going on in the world. And finally, the girl on the right represents our voice; the voice that we have yet to find and use for a revolution. The second panel with the different landscapes has to do almost entirely with freedom. Lack of freedom, I think, constricts creativity. That’s the reason that the man is asking you to define your work with one picture because if you don’t have this space to think and move around, then all your going to have to show for it is one little picture. For the third panel I wanted to contrast different types of media. The news about the world vs. the model made me wonder what people would focus on when they looked at the panel. Would they just see the girl, or would a few kids look at what the newspaper clippings actually say? If you look, the newspaper is all cut together and tells a story, some of the stories are weirder than others.