Blog 5

The piece of art I choose was David Wojnarowicz  “Untitled”

1. He uses a multitude of rhetorical properties that attribute to its meaning. One major thing was his choice of using a picture of himself. When you hear him mention all these things and in the end he ties all together with saying he will receive this mistreatment in a few years. Sort of a foreshadow, yet this kid is smiling with his messed up teeth, white and black box button up. In addition, he has the words perfectly covering the outer layer of his body, trying not to mess with the image of himself. Finally, the picture was done in black and white even though color was already around at the time of this. I feel as if he did this on purpose to give the reader a more bland feeling, easily being able to focus on something no distractions unless done on purpose.
2. This text purposely speaks on the issue of homophobia and how innocents being gay actually is. Initially its just a child, who plays and makes mistakes loved unconditionally and simply because of his desires he is viewed in a complete different light. So because it was against the norm he was being punished similarly to disproportioned communities. Of course the major community being the LQBTQ  same sex marriage is now here but still are being perpetuated and have hate crimes against them. Simply because of their preference.
3. Art can simply change everyone’s perspective on a political issue. When dealing with this you must think of how a depiction of something persuades someone, If you see the picture of the consequences of police brutality, or a man kneeling on another neck of your same race. You feel anger or any type of very strong emotion, resulting in a shifted perspective on something