Choluteca
Item
- Title
- Choluteca
- Description
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During the early months of covid-19, I had a lot of time on my hands. I only had online school and 4 classes a day barely kept me occupied. Because of this, I started watching many TV shows. My favorite TV show I began watching is called ‘Money Heist.’ The show is about a group of individuals with city names robbing the bank of Spain by printing their own money and keeping hostages. I fell in love with the show immediately and it is still the best show I have ever watched to date.
Because I love the show so much, I decided to base my project on it. In Money Heist, the robbers wore a mask that depicted Salvador Dali, a famous Spanish painter. Dali rejected capitalism and they used his face to symbolize that what they were doing was a protest to capitalism. For my project, I decided to mask myself as one of the robbers. My city name is Choluteca, the city where my grandfather was born. My job as a robber was solely to keep track of all the important hostages whose presence was vital for our escape and success.
For my project, I decided to create my headshot as a robber. To create my mask, I cut out Dali’s head shape from a shoe box of a pair of Nikes I own. I then drew the face with a dramatic mustache and cut out the eye holes. I then painted the mask with tan and black paint. To style the mask, I used my little brother’s red Coca-Cola hoodie to portray the red jumpsuits the robbers wore. For the picture, I placed my mask over my face and put the hoodie on. To edit the picture, I used the app Picsart where I colored the background black and added a beam of light. My photo is aesthetically pleasing because it is simple. There’s not a lot going on so the viewer’s only focus can be my name and my mask, the star of the project. It also represents how I spent my time during quarantine.
This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course. - Creator
- Anonymous
- Format
- Image/Imagen
- Date
- 2022-03-15
- Coverage
- Greenville, North Carolina
- Media
Mask Project (1).jpg
This item was submitted on April 27, 2022 by [anonymous user] using the form “Contribute a Digital Item/Done un Artículo/Producto Digital” on the site “Documenting COVID-19 in Eastern North Carolina”: http://collections.ecu.edu/os/s/ecucovid19
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