Selfie in a Mask
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Title
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Selfie in a Mask
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Description
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I am currently a freshman at East Carolina University. My major is Biomedical science. I want a minor in something else but I don't know what I want it to be yet. My dream is to become a neurosurgeon. A neurosurgeon is a medical doctor who diagnoses and treats conditions of the brain, spine, and nervous system through surgical and nonsurgical treatments based on the type of injury or illness. My interest in art grew because someone that was very close to me taught me how to draw and from then on I started to. I love to draw Realistic things like animals.
For this assignment in Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course, I chose to create a mask that was able to tell how I felt about the pandemic. I used a regular white mask and painted on it. I painted tears on it to show the pain I was going through seeing all those people dying and suffering because of the virus. I chose to edit my picture grey to show the depression and sadness of how other people may have felt also. It is also more likely to draw attention because it makes everyone more empathetic to what I am expressing.
It is a protective mask but I will not be wearing this mask in public because to me it has a very sad image that I used. The word "enough" expresses how I felt while watching and hearing what was going on around the world during the pandemic. the word also represents how I felt being in quarantine in the house all day, I got tired of it and I wanted it to end.
I created the mask to show what I went through throughout the pandemic. I took the photo at the playground downtown the way I did because it shows how sad it is that you don't see families and children coming together to have fun because it's not safe especially when people are worried something may happen if they get affected. when I edited the color to grey it elevates it more. my photo is creative because the mask could have a lot of meanings to it. This mask also represents the type of society we are all currently living in and stands for the struggles we all individually face. The photo also represents the struggle we all were facing when we were scared and worried about getting sick or not.
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Coverage
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Greensboro, North Carolina
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Creator
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Neal-Platt, Asanti
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Date
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2021-02-04
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