Creative mask selfie: Look Forward
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Title
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Creative mask selfie: Look Forward
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Description
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My name is Selina Banks, and I am a first year. My intended major is Exercise Physiology and I hope to become a Physical Therapist after graduating. Some of my interests include helping people, being outdoors, and spending time with family and friends. Art has always been something that I found fun because of being able to express myself in drawings. However, I am not very good at taking my thoughts and putting them on paper well. My mom is very artistic and excellent at drawing, so I have always tried learning from her.
With the creative mask project, I decided to draw a Cardinal bird with a fabric marker, use makeup to create the eye of the cardinal on the side of my face, and use red petals to act as feathers. My mom had actually made this red mask and I thought it would be the perfect canvas. I was inspired by the Cardinal birds that are always outside of my window sitting on the bird feeder or sitting on our big tree in front of the house. The Cardinal is the state bird, but it also has a special meaning in my heart. I recently heard the saying “Cardinals appear when angels are near”. I lost my uncle this past August and after hearing this saying it makes me think of him and that he is visiting us every day, letting us know that he is still watching over us.
Since this mask is actually protective, I will be wearing it when I go out in public. With COVID being around for almost a year now, it has not been fun having to wear a mask everywhere we go. Although times have been tough, I have been able to re-discover the joy in enjoying simple things. For example, going on walks with my sister and mom, being able to have picnics, and sitting in our backyard having a fire, simply talking the night away. I chose to pose outside, looking out because we can learn from the birds to enjoy the beauty of outdoors and look forward, toward the future. Through these challenging times we need to continue looking forward to the future and have hope for good things to come again.
My creative picture is to highlight the Cardinal and I am trying to represent a Cardinal myself. I think this picture is aesthetically pleasing because of the simple pleasures we get from the outdoors, as well as the use of bright colors. What makes my idea unique is the role of trying to look like a Cardinal while appreciating the bird itself. It has helped me deal with the times we live in. When I start to worry about what will happen next, I look ahead and free myself because I need to enjoy what I still have and what is around me (family, nature, etc.).
This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
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Creedmoor, North Carolina
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Creator
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Banks, Selina
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Date
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2021-01-29
