Oiticica uses visual and sensorial methods to engage the audience in art that not only allows you to physically participate, but reflect upon intellectually--connecting people with nature through the sensorial observation of one’s environment, Oiticia use of sound and texture gives the participant a deeper understanding of the true culture in which represents Brazil a [...]
Activism has increasingly become an effective way of communicating with other like minded individuals to stand together for a cause. Over the past few months I have become more aware of the ways in which media such as film and the internet play in the development of socio-political change. A well researched blog post can also [...]
Not all celebrities are A-listers and not all celebrities get behind charity work to stand for a cause. In western society we tend to value celebrityhood in a way that promotes the level of expenditure rather than the strength of the cause. Although countless numbers of celebrities have donated to charities or stood behind a [...]
Imaged Above: Armação dos Búzios, Rio de Janeiro 2009 Antonio Fernando Varela - Esculturas do Mar, Rio de Janeiro 2009 Kreuzberg, Berlin Germany 2017 I have been documenting street art for the past 10 + years. I have always found this type of art to speak most of the time and place in [...]
The book Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates brings to light the story of the Black experience, and the experience of the African diaspora in america as compared to its White Eurocentric american counterpart. The book addresses the real-life struggle of Black lives in america and how Coates overcame this struggle [...]
In the documentary film The Square, director Jehane Noujaim crafts the message regarding the relationship dynamics between the religious and political state of Egypt. The message was about the importance activism played throughout the unification, and then later divide between the resistance and the brotherhood--the compromises of both the physical and philosophical obstacles they faced while looking [...]
Hstorically women have worked in crafts, it is not a determination that should strictly be held to one's identity-- granted the American flag was hand sewn by a woman because a man wouldn't let her have a proper occupation out side of the home. Femininity does not define a woman and the color pink is [...]
