Briana Carter
9/16/14
Weekly post

     On 9/9, we discussed the art 21 videos, reading, and got into our groups for discussion of these topics. Our group discussed Kara walker. We listened in on what other groups had to say and we discussed how we felt Kara Walker portrayed time through her pieces. I used the example where she had the projector in front of her silhouette and it made her audience feel like they are really there. Our homework was then to come up with three ideas for our time project. I came up with two because I believed that they were two really good ideas.  My ideas were having myself doing my own make up and the other one was of silhouette dancers dancing across a building from my home town. On 9/11, we watched the video on the sugar baby by Kara Walker. It was absolutely amazing and I think that it stunned so many people because there are artist in this world that do not particularly do their own artwork; but how could she on such a large scale. After that, we walked around to comment on everybody's ideas. I saw a lot of really good ideas and some not so good ones because she clearly stated that it could not be cliché like an hour glass or seasons changing and I saw plenty of those. The feedback that I got on my project was that it needed to be different in some way than make up commercials and it needed to become open to a wider audience. So, my idea was to incorporate a child and an older adult. I want the child to open up the video by her smiling and happy and then she puts on make up and she is still happy. Women my age have to wear make up to be happy and older people just wear it as habit, but do not particularly see themselves as being more beautiful. This is the kind of transition I am hoping to make.