Metaphor

I chose to make a "tiny dancer" as metaphor project because when I think of my childhood, the main thing I think of are the years I did dance.

COLORS!!!!

Phase 2: Torn paper 

Phase 1: Dots

Phase 3: Tracing paper

Identity Essentials

the body as a "container"

role of age

the essence of gender

the body as a site of loss and remembrance

the body as a landscape

Exquisite Corpse

Go pretty Mexico flexes crazy

Gorgeous puppy filtered slimy squirrel

Color Possibilities

Bio-Map Outline

a.  Path of locations [birth to current]

- Houston, TX, first house

- 1998 second house Cypress area

- 2010 Huntsville, TX

b. Relational path of those lived with for each location

i. The nature of the relationship

1. Physical

2. Emotional

3. Spiritual

ii. How those relationships changed from location to location and as you aged

iii. Significant things said to you that you can almost still ear in your head. Both p/n 

c. Educational path--schools and for each list (be specific)

1. Carmichael Elementary

i. Significant peers - Brooke Kotch and Silver Criswell

ii. Significant adults - Kindergarten teacher

iii. Significant things said to you that you can almost still hear in your head. Both p/n

- When my mom was pregnant w/ my little brother my teacher would always ask "Do you have a brother yet?"

iv. Significant objects - 

v. Significant cause - 

vi. Experiences of loss or absence - I got really sick once and a friends mom had to pick me up early.

vii. Experiences of joy or belonging - 

2. Hancock Elementary

i. Maddi Meeks, Destinee Burden, Caitlin Womack, and Christy Cloud

ii. Ms. Gacke my 5th grade teacher

iii. when my cousin told me that girls couldn't play basketball, then I played for 6 years and was one of the best players on my team.

3. Bleyl Middle School

i. Hannah Ortiz and Becky Mortlock

ii. my 8th grade science teacher Mr. Morton

iii. when i was accused for starting a rumor about my best friend and she stopped speaking to me

vi. I got mono in the sixth grade from sharing drinks at lunch and missed the last three weeks of school.

4. Cypress Creek High School

i. softball team, Lauren Cavazos, Nayelli Martinez

ii. Ms. Young, Ms. Patty, Coach Ramsey and Coach Kight

iii. Girls on the softball made fun of me for not drinking or cussing, but I was proud of it so they had to deal with it.

5. LoneStar College

i. Jeanette Montes, Vanessa Flores 

ii. Sunnye Pruden

iii. An adult at my church told me I wasn't responsible and was not a good leader for the younger girls I taught.

6. Sam Houston State

i. Katy Bridges, Michaela Green, small group, Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship

ii. Eli Stewart, Eli Gautreaux

iii. My friends now always tell me what a great friend I am and how much they love me.

d. Career path

i. Answer iii. 1-3

e. Spiritual path

i. Changes over time?

- accepted Christ into my life senior year of high school, got baptized 2/10/2008. Growing in my life faith more and more everyday.

f. Sexuality or gender evolution/path or relationship to the body

g. Pathway of achievements

h. Pathways of pain or crisis or loss

i. April 27, 2010 my grandpa passed away

ii. my cousin who is more like a brother to me went to prison

i. Pathway of dreams or desires

i. Hope to one day have my own photo studio or take photos for a magazine

j. Other threads to possibly follow

i. Character - love to laugh, silly, kind, selfless

ii. Limitations - shy

iii. Passion - photography, Christ, friendships

iv. Strengths - good listener

v. Abilities and competencies

vi. Fears - getting cancer

vii. Hopes - married and mother

viii. Calling -

ix. Understanding of people -

x. Understand of culture -

xi. Understanding of heritage -

xii. Materialism - not very materialistic, grateful for the things I have

xiii. Goals - live life to the fullest

xiv. Why do you want to be an artist, animator, designer? (when did that desire begin; what fanned the flame and kept it going) - because I like to be creative

xv. With those three fields what specific things are interested in? - Photography b/c took it senior year of high school and I fell in love with the dark room.

xvi. Are these changing? How so? - A little bit b/c no one really uses a dark room anymore but thats what I liked most. I'm not very good at digital stuff like photoshop.

xvii. Personal narrative, quotes, journal entries, poetry, song lyrics, etc. - bible verses

k. Show for relationships and connections; cause and effect

l. Consider chronological, geographical vs topical or some hybrid

Photos

1. This is a photo I took myself of my little brother
a. I took this photo because I thought it would be cool to capture him running through the water. I keep it because I use it as one of my photography pieces for my portfolio. I chose it for this assignment because it is one of my favorite pictures and it's significant to me because it is of my little brother and this was a fun day at the beach with my family.
b. The relationship between me and him is that he is my little brother and I wanted to capture a happy moment of him smiling, running through the water and having a great time.
c. I think this photo is intended to be viewed with joy because you can actually picture yourself there with him in the photo and I will definitely remember this photo in 10 years because it is one of my favorite photos of my little brother.

2. This photo was taken of me and two of my friends by another friend, Maida, who is also a photography major.
a. She was taking pictures of us for practice so we went out to this huge field and took pictures. It is my favorite picture in the whole world, I keep it because these are two of my best friends and this photo pretty much sums up our friendship.
b. The photographer is a friend of ours and we were all just laughing having a good time which made the  picture turn out the way it did. Whenever I look at the photo it makes me smile and remember how much fun we had that day.
c. I think that when other people look at this photo it makes them smile, especially if they know us and I will always remember this picture because of the girls that are in it with me.

3. This was taken by someone I don't know of people I don't know
a. This picture looks like a married couple dressed up to go somewhere and when you get a chance to take a photo like this you usually keep it and put it in a frame.
b. I don't know who took this photo, but it looks like it is in their house so I am assuming that it is someone in their family. My attitude towards this photo is not very intimate because I don't know them and I feel like pictures are something personal and its better if you know the people in the photo.
c. This photo is probably viewed by family members mostly and since its an old photo its a memory that they get to look back on and I probably won't remember this photo because I don't know who they are.