3D Art Description

My piece of art is based upon the style of folk art. It includes Frederick Douglas (left) and Melvin Johnson (right). These two people are related because they each have their own weapons. Frederick Douglas’s finger is his weapon because he made lots of influential speeches. Melvin Johnson’s weapon is his perfection. They are also connected because they were also both born in times of racial discrimination. The board is all banged up because it is supposed to be in the style of folk art and usually folk artists paint on planks of wood that they have just found laying around so they aren’t always in perfect condition.

Personal Connection

I can personally connect to my poem with the art work because in my poem it talks about how my grandpa struggled through something and then over came it by doing something good and that's what Frederick Douglass did too. What I mean about Frederick Douglass is that he had to struggle with being a slave when he was a child and then later on in his life he had overcame that by escaping slavery.

Connection to my Resilience Cafe Art

I connect to the resilience art project I am doing because it is showing two people’s different weapons (Frederick Douglas with his finger, Melvin Johnson with his perfection, having all his stripes); my weapon in life is my brain. I use it a lot to solve problems and come up with things that no one has ever thought of before. I can also connect it to the art project because it going to be painted on a banged up piece of plywood. That is kind of like my life, it gets splinters and dents every once in a while, some bigger than others and some deeper than others. It is also like my body I fall and get a cut, however it is now like the plywood because the cut goes away in time it does not stay there forever.

Studio time reflection

During studio time, I accomplish doing my assignments like making a poem and typing the lyrics. I personally think that my partner and I are evenly doing our work because we both bring in what ever we need to bring in for the project like photos. What my plan is for next week is to catch up on my blogs better than this time.

Response to Blueprint Comments

Most of the helpful comments that I got were mostly like: Make your drawing more detailed, and such. Those types of comments didn't really help me out because on the blueprint you only had to draw a stick figure to show where you would draw people, so naturally I wasn't just going to have the final drawing be a stick figure.

However I did get one really helpful comment that I am actually going to use. It said that is would be neat to have only parts of it be detailed and have the rest be kind-of blurry and not so detailed (like a lot of folk art is). I thought that was a really good suggestion and am going to incorporate it into my picture.

Resilient Poem

As a child I was doing real fine
Until I started doing drugs at the age nine
Cigarettes lit and peer pressure rising
As I took a puff, it felt so surprising
I was addicted to it and I couldn't stop
My eyes slowly started floating to the top
My head felt light(pause) I was high
Then my other bad friends came by
They introduced my to another liquor
Then we had a race on who could drink it quicker
The world looked wobbly (pause) I was drunk
Then my breath smelled like a dead skunk
When my dad found out he was mad
Then he told me how the things I did were bad
After he beat me, spanked me, and made me lean
At the age 17, he made me join the Marines
On the first day, I thought it would be hell
I should have thought twice, cuz I did pretty well
In the 60s came the Vietnam War
I was so good, I could kill a group of four
In the past , I messed and was a dunce
But in the Marines, I haven't messed up once
As I finished all my 20 years there
I had so many things that I wanted to share
As I bought myself some food from the store
I noticed that I didn't want drugs any more
If you want to stay away from drugs, then try this
I am the grandfather of Hasani Byas.