Tag project:NOW
The words thoughts and prayers can easily be erased and brushed aside. Unlike the victims from the Uvalde shooting, those actions caused permanent damage to families and the community. I worked on this piece because I wanted to commemorate all 21 victims from the Uvalde shooting. Just like in the work, thoughts and prayers have been erased but the names remained. It never felt comforting to hear the words thoughts and prayers, when people say that they don’t really care to action. Nobody wants your thoughts and prayers, its getting repetitive.
A simple face sculpted with clay, covered in little pieces of paper. Each paper has a label that has been put on me by others, barely seen under them all is my nickname “Siah” while my full name “Jesiah has been cover from view. This sculpture aims to show how modern societies emphasis on social groups, clicks, trends, and associations can cause a person to experience a lost of self as they alter themselves or are altered by others.
I chose to draw a bookshelf in disrepair full of books with the names on the spines crossed out. This is meant to represent the growing censorship and book banning happening in schools as well as the slow decline of… Continue Reading →
I chose to do a digital drawing on the writers strike. I drew a claw machine to honor the Toy Story franchise. I purposefully only wanted certain things in color so they would stand out over other objects.
