Kitra Cahana: The World Captured

Kitra Cahana

Multicultural Kitrag grew up in Canada and Sweden produces photography that is both spiritually and focuses on the body. Kitra emerges herself within the community she documents, which includes a Venezuelan cult, homeless teenagers, Israeli households, and poverty levels in suburbs of Houston.

Its an important part of understanding your subjects; to submerge yourself within the area and truly represent. This is especially important in documentary. Although most of the time there is bias plays in many documentaries, its better, in my opinion, to let the audience do what they want with the facts.

Mike Brodie AKA Polariod Kid

Mike Brodie

Originally from Arizona, Brodie never received formal training in photography but simply was given a Polaroid camera in 2004 and started recorded. Brodie’s work reflects the rawness of an uncut photographer. The photographs are mostly of this band of teenagers who ride trains around America. Its this gypsy clan that travels and survive together; the modern day nomads.

As quickly as Brodie came into the scene, he left after publishing a book of his findings. One of the many mysterious things about this game changer photographer.

Propaganda project

I liked this project; I thought it seemed realistic to something I would like to do pertaining to a career or some sort. Being a Rhetoric major, I love finding different meanings behind almost any media. In this project I was able to use Ethos and Pathos; appealing to the audience's emotions and hopefully adding credibility with the national hotline.
I work at the Red Lion Hotel in Pasco; apparently the biggest area for human trafficking. It's crazy to think even in this small town that things like that happen, but its true. I think people are unaware of the existence and therefore no not look for the signs. However, if you are aware, sometimes the public eye can be the most effective activists against public issues like this.

Heather Hansen: Movement

Heather Hansen, a native of New Orleans, incorporates the movement of yoga with charcoal art. Heather takes a large piece of white paper and several pieces of charcoal and records the body's movement through the poses. The pictures turn into mostly circles, which is interesting considering it reflects the movement of the body.
This is wonderful because it is as much performance art as the end result. When she takes to the beach and uses the scene with sand to construct basically the same idea. The movement of the body comes together makes a wonderful connection to the piece and the reflection of the body.

Abstract Triptych- I Hate Boxes

I Hate Boxes 

Well, first off I didn't want this piece to a transitional abstract piece; I wanted to approach it with an edge and difference. For one thing, I hate boxes. I hate putting things in it, I hate being put into them as a student or writer or person; So I wanted the lines to not really make sense and have to look for the definition of each box. There are three boxes with each of the symbols in them.
I used Wingdings also, so the font isn't even the typical letters but rather symbols. I used my initials in this and represented them or me as a symbol rather than a name or letters. I loved working in the shades rather than color because it gives a feel of balance rather than a typical emotion, which color can sometimes pull out.
I started with triangles partly because of the symbol Wingdings gave me and partly because I wanted the shapes to go somewhere. They ended up moving from these understood shapes and move into more abstract; its like entering the abstraction from something that we are comfortable with.

Tomas Saraceno: Worlds

So installation art has had my attention ever since I researched Diana Thater. This work was done by Tomas Saraceno in Miami's art Museum in a Modern and Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection. The piece is called "Galaxies Forming along Filaments, Like Droplets along the Strands of a Spiders Web"and was a two week process to install. The connection between the microscopic world and space is interesting, especially when the instillation is  made from only black and white. Like it was adding the contrast from the large world where we really cant see and the small world, which we almost always ignore. The two areas that are all around yet we forgot about them is represented.

Namless: Different in Public

So I was scrolling through Fb the other day and came across this; sometimes the best artistic things you can find is just in very day life. I love street performers and saw someone had posted this video of this guy (I don't know the artist's name; it didn't say) in Japan. These two people move like one under this dark cape and look like a 4 legged creature. Its eerie and alittle bit disturbing to watch him move around the square with four legs. At one point during the performance he kinda gets in the face of a person watching. I'm wondering if it has to do with people walking around feeling abnormal in a normal setting. Like when you feel so out of place and you will never fit in with your surroundings.