Category Archives: Class Artist Statements

The purpose of my video was to display my attachment to my Metrocard.  A Metrocard can provoke many emotions. Especially if I lost an unlimited monthly MetroCard or if I found one.  Especially since these plastics cards can cost so much money. This object takes me places where I need to be.  I wanted to […]

The power of action lies in the silence, i thought of making the video a modern comical piece with dance moves. I decided to use the antics of everyday character. I had a couple my friends acting using improv and decided to cut the audio to show that the body language being shown portrays the […]

My video for project 1 changed completely from when I first began to do my initial sketches until now. I was inspired when I was visiting the Brooklyn Museum two weekends ago and decided to take a walk through the Botanic Garden next door. What I found on my walk through wasn’t exactly what I […]

Now that I am taking my second new media arts class I feel much more prepared for projects in the future. I never considered myself and artist. I have friends that attended Fiore Laguardia high school. They were talented and artistic students. They forced me to go to museums with them in Manhattan. They have […]

For my first video project, I decided to come up with a concept that people tend to look past on a regular. The prompt given to us had me thinking about portraits of objects on a literal basis. I did not necessarily want to tell a story, but moreover I wanted to touch up on […]

The purpose of all my pieces is to have a universal emotional connection with my audience. It doesn’t matter a person’s, gender, background, or native language, my art is thoughtfully created to connect with anyone anywhere. I really hoped to do that with my piece but due to time constraints and lack of co-operation from […]

Lamp is a concept of detail. For my portrait, my main focus was to point out its structure and the purpose of this simple object. Using techniques such as close ups I successfully made this point come across. Following the patterns and small trails that are created by the edges of the object all throughout. […]

I wanted to capture a portrait of chickens. I developed a close relationship with the chickens I care for on the weekends and I believed focusing on the different personalities of the chickens and using close-ups would be an effective way to portray them in an unconventional way. I took numerous clips of them but […]

One thing that is universal for all humans are feelings. One in particular is anxiety, and with more people having these issues I wanted to dive further into it. I wanted my piece to evoke this feeling of fear, which is mostly driven by their inability to control their anxiety. I selected eerie settings that […]