Creative selfie in a mask
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Title
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Creative selfie in a mask
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Description
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Hello, my name is Odyessey Gaines, and I am a sophomore here at ECU. I am majoring in Biology with a minor in Spanish in hopes of becoming an Obstetrician/gynecologist. Some of my interests include cooking, shopping, and spending quality time with my family and friends. Art hasn’t ever really been something I was interested in, but over the last year or so I have been drawing and painting on canvases here and there in my free time or to help deal with stress. I think art is fun and great in helping express feelings.
With the creative mask project, I decided to draw a hand representing the black community with a broken chain. I used a disposable face mask, with two white index cards, and used a black and brown sharpie and a brown colored pencil. The month of February helped me come up with this idea for my mask due to it being Black History Month.
Since this mask is protective, I will be wearing it when I go out in public. Since COVID-19 there have been many political masks made. This mask not only represents me but other people of color as well. Me being black, I think it is important to be able to voice my feelings, especially in this month.
I took my photo with my ring light to shine a light on the mask as well as to portray that light still needs to be shined on African Americans in the world. It represents the time period we are dealing with not only because of COVID-19 but as well as the many racial injustices that have happened while COVID-19 was going on.
This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation.
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Coverage
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Hendersonville, North Carolina
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Creator
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Gaines, Odyessey
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Date
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2021-02-03
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