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Anatomy of an artist
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- This is how it begins…
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- Painting is about dark and light
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- Teachers can be students
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- Technique can be taught, passion cannot
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- The slightest of changes happens with each stroke
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- What is it that you see?
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- “The differences in paint are like butter and margarine”
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- Tools of the trade
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- This can be the hardest part
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- Inspiration in all forms
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- Careful concentration is required
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- The necessary tools are never far away
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- A creative process, but still a process
An artist is a person who interprets the world around them. The sorrows, the joys, the pain, the beauty are all seen in a particular way to be explained and relayed in some way. It can be argued that we are all artists. But those that are compelled to deliver this interpretation of the world as they see it are quite different. There is an inner drive in them; almost an audible voice for their ears only, that requires them to create. It pushes them. It fulfills them. It comforts and nurtures them. In a small studio in Greenwich Village an accomplished author and professor, beloved wife and mother, obeys that inner voice and delivers what she sees through oil paints. While she painstakingly teaches her students to find their place in the world she is simultaneously creating hers and where here art will take her. Here is the anatomy of an artist…
Posted in Assignment Six - Final Project
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Harlem On My Mind
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- Touring through Harlem has become all the rage
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- People come from all around with maps to see…
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- That vacant lot used to be a world famous restaurant. Until it burned down, not to be rebuilt…
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- Now Harlem is becoming a snapshot, with forgotten history…
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- Gentrification prices people out…
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- Leaving the residents to ask, “developed for whom?”…
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- Harlem is at a crossroads…
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- This is a local’s Harlem
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- On a lazy Sunday afternoon
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- Who owns the spirit of a neighborhood?…
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- From bow ties to big business
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- The feelings of some are loud and clear…
Harlem has often been considered a city within a city. A culturally rich crown jewel in African American culture, Harlem was the epicenter of the art and literature movement commonly known as the Harlem Renaissance. Originally settled by the Dutch, it was annexed to New York City in 1873. Harlem has seen its share of sorrows and change. With the Great Depression Harlem experienced an influx of crime and joblessness. Juxtaposed with the Harlem Renaissance, Harlem residents have had a disproportionate level of poverty and almost an abandonment by city development. Fast forward to the mid 1990’s and Harlem is once again back in vogue. Community renewal, commonly known as gentrification has changed the face of Harlem slowly but surely. The old residents are being bought out or priced out without much of an option to preserve the culture of Harlem that has become synonymous with this city within a city, leaving many to ask “Who’s Harlem is it anyway?”
Posted in Assignment Four - Community, Uncategorized
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Single Parenting in the City
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- Morning bath time routine
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- Dads nurture and care too
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- Alex always brushes Alex’s teeth, but he let’s Alex brush them too
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- Alex and little Alex busy themselves with their morning routine
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- Morning necessities
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- Cartoons are just as important as the news
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- Let me make sure you look presentable
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- Let me clean your face
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- At church little Alex wants his dad’s attention
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- Dad and son want each other’s attention
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- Sometimes dad has to discipline
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- Daddy I have to tell you something
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- “Daddy you’re mean to me”
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- Stay close to me Alex
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- Daddy I don’t want to take a nap
Twenty eight year old Alex Serrao and his son three-year-old Alex live in Jamaica Queens. Alex has joint custody of little Alex, who spends the other half of his time in Long Island with his mother. Although Alex shares custody of little Alex he is a full time parent. His apartment is just as full of toy cars and soldiers as it would be if little Alex was there everyday.
Alex is a regular fixture in little Alex’s life. Their weekends are spent like father and son at any age, not specifically three years old. Alex makes sure to take little Alex to the movies and museums, Chuck E Cheese and the barbershop, church and the park. In the following collection of photos Alex and little Alex are getting ready for church on a Sunday morning. Alex buys breakfast, bathes Alex, reads the morning news via internet and watches cartoons with little Alex. Alex and little Alex attend The Greater Allen Cathedral in Jamaica Queens, where little Alex sits with his dad in service instead of going to children’s Sunday school. They both wouldn’t have it any other way.
Posted in Dollars & Sense
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Single in the City
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- Starting the day
Alex and three year old little Alex.
