I decided to make jewelry because I am very interested in fashion and design. I think that much of what you wear resembles your personality and/or the mood that you are feeling that day. In my personal style I like to fuse girly and preppy with things that are more edgier and hard. This jewelry represents both aspects of my style. My grandfather was an engineer and still likes to build things around the house. He has a garage full of old bolts and other odds and ends. I aimed to use his old building materials to create something creative and wearable. The only item that I bought was gorilla glue.
The first piece I created used nails and metal circles. I used the glue to connect the nails to the metal part, and used old fishing wire as a chain. The second piece I created used an old fish hook that I connected to my dogs old vaccination tag.
I do this work because I feel like the world is becoming more and more trashy. I believe we can work together to make the world a clearer place for the animals and ourselves. Every day I see people Littering and not knowing they are killing the animals and affecting the air we are breathing. There are trash in the north pacific gyre that about the size of the state Texas. my question is why so many trash in the middle of the ocean? that show how we as a whole are not civilize. My goals are to get this message through everyone and make sure they understand that they are affecting the world and all living things in it including us. It wouldn’t hurt to put trashes in the trashcan.
My project is on a green bored because I want people to be greener to the world and shows how greener our world can get by not littering. I draw my world map instead of buying the map because I feel like is better to draw it because I’m showing that i cared about the world and to also show how art have a part in this project. I draw the map with a black crayons because I want people to see the outline of all seven continents.
My current work I do them because I had to do them and I do them with out trying to send a message through it but this one I’m trying to get people attention and understand the message behind my art. Art wasn’t always my thing because I thought art had no purpose and you can’t express yourself with art like how you can with words. I was wrong because I’m expressing how I feel about the world and how seeing the world like this affects me.
Artist Statement:
In art class we have been learning about plastic and how plastic is effecting our world as a whole. Plastic is not bio-degradable so it takes 1,000 years to decompose, but since we use so much plastic that process is basically irrelevant to us. Animals in the ocean eat the plastic and the plastic gets into there system. Take fish for example, the fish eat the plastic and we then catch the fish and eat the fish so now the plastic is in our body. Also mammals such as turtles, sea lions, and other sea creatures get caught in the plastic and they can suffocate or they even have to live with that plastic on them forever.For our first project we collected bottle caps and we also made posters asking people to collect bottle caps. We collected bottle caps to give to a artist Aurora who does bottle cap art. She created many structures using plastic bottles and there caps. That to me is a way of making people aware of the plastic problem that is now plaguing our world and it shows people how they can do something with there plastic besides simply throwing them away. Which brings me to my project, I like doing things that make people aware and may eventually cause them to get involved with helping, or making things that simple make them think deeper into different things.
For my project I created a globe and in the water section of the world I put bottle caps in it to show how the plastic is going into our ocean. I then put animals around it with them saying little things asking humans to stop all the plastic littering and explaining how it is effecting them. To do this I used a ball, paper mâche, paint, glue, bottle caps, pencils, a box, and paper. I paper mâcheed the ball once the paper mâche dried I drew shapes to show where the land is, I then painted the ball green and blue. I got a box and painted the box black, the box is being used as a platform for the ball to rest in and that is where I placed the animals. Once the paint on the ball dried I glued the bottle caps on but only where the water is.
I really hope that when people see my project they will take into consideration the effect plastic is having on our world and on us in general. Because our individual actions are effecting our world as a whole. I hope that this will inspire people to take action and get together and find other uses for the plastic that we have in this world because it isn't going anywhere and we have to live with it forever.
"Is this water sanitary? It looks questionable to me..."
The Process:
I just got into this whole recycling thing because it literally just hit me on how bad the world is because of us not recycling. In the past I was probably a big contributor to the deteriorating earth that we live on now, and I probably still am today but I'm glad that I finally realized the severity of the whole thing. After figuring this out, I've reconsidered art projects and instead of creating new I would recreate with the old and unwanted. It's still a new thing to me but I'm still trying. I realized just recently how many thing you can actually make out of you're everyday things like bottle caps, plastic bags, and even milk cartons. It just makes me thing, How does someone come up with things like this?
Our first project that we did in art was based around bottle caps. We found out that bottle caps can't be recycled so instead people just throw them into the ocean where fish and other sea creatures eat them. And what do we do? We eat those fish, so we're basically eating the plastic that we swallowed. It's all really disgusting but we created posters to try to get people to collect their bottle caps and give them to an artist who uses them in her murals and such. My poster had a coca-cola bottle on it getting recycled into a phone and then a bottle cap getting recycled into a disco ball. For our next project, I wanted to recycle some type of juice container into a wallet or a bag because I feel as though if you can make a bag, out of juice boxes, then anything is possible. At first I wanted to make a Capri Sun wallet, but I just thought that it would be too pre-schooler of me to do that even though, I've always wanted to do one. Therefore, I changed it to making a wallet out of a milk carton (If you haven't noticed yet, I have an obsession with wallets).
It was actually pretty hard because a milk carton is much thicker than a Capri Sin pouch. I had to cut it with a cutting board instead of scissors and then I had to bend it in certain ways. Even when I put it under like, 200 lbs books it still didn't lay flat. Not only that, I had to sew the middle together…my fingers were red afterwards. Then I had to sew a button on the top flap which was a bit easier however, I couldn't see where to put the needle to go through the button so, I was doing that with trial and error….and eventually, I was done. I hope that some stores will take recycling more seriously and create recycled accessories that makes us more informed about the environment that we live in.
With the idea of portraying an art project made out of bottle caps and showing what we as humans do with our trash was hard to come up with as an idea. First I started to draw in my sketchbook trying to figure out how I can make a three divisional art piece show all the factors that I want. I was then able to start the project by using only recycled materials.
The way I start is different from most people. I like to have an idea then sketch it out once. Then start making different pieces of it and whatever piece turns out the best I work with and build the art piece from it. As I started to work I chose only the recyclable materials. Any thing I had access to that I felt would be of some use I incorporated it in to my project. Along with the things I remembered I made a bottle cap poster. To help collect them so they cold are used in the project, so I found a way to include them.
My idea came to when me when I first received this project. I automatically thought about the ocean we destroy by all the trash that it encounters over an extensive period of time. Whenever I go places I love to look at the water it’s one of my favorite things to do. I find it to be very pretty and extremely relaxing. So I decided to show people what we’re doing to the water slowly but surely.
Weather Conditions!
In Spanish we use Hace and Esta’ meaning it’s to say the weather.
Hace is used when saying how it feels or looks. Esta’ is used when telling what the weather is doing. These are the ways to say different weather conditions.
Frio= cold
Calor=hot
Viento=windy
Sol=sunny
Fresco=cool
Those are the terms in which hace should be placed in front of
Example- hace frio=its cold
Nevando= snowing
Lloviendo= raining
Nublado=cloudy
Those terms should be said with esta.
For example Esta’ lloviendo
(P.S. Philadelphia’s Margaret and Orthodox Station needs a clean up, badly)
1.
What motivated you to come out and vote?
He voted because he is a committee-person.
2. What would you like to see changed in our political system?.
He really didn’t want to change anything, just to keep the democrats vote up.
3.
Do you vote in every election (How regularly do you vote?)
Votes
every election.
4.
Do you know why we vote on Tuesday?
No
5. Where have you encountered the highest amount of ad campaigning? Radio, TV, Print, Internet, other.
Television
6. What was the most memorable
campaign ad that you have encountered?
The Obama campaign.
7. Are you always sure of who you
are going to vote for when you walk into the booth or are you still
deliberating?
Yes.
8. What changed do you hope to see in Philadelphia as a result of this election?
He wants to help the Democratic Party to get back in.
9. What impact do you feel that your vote will have on the election?.
Helps to keep the Democratic party in.
10.
Did you learn about voting in school? If yes, did that impact your
willingness to vote today?
Yes.
