Bronx Museum- Caribbean house

This drawing represents an art piece that I saw at the Bronx museum. Houses in the Caribbean are built from cement because in the Caribbean there's a lot of hurricanes. This art piece spoke out to me a lot because I can relate. Back home in Puerto Rico, I have my own house. My father and some others helped construct it. My house looked exactly the same as the art piece when it was being constructed at first. When I was an infant my granddad told my father to make me a house and so that's what my father did. Till' this day it's still there. Now it's nicely constructed and finished. It's two floors.

Moma Museum - my dream city

I drew this because I know what it's like to live in a city. A city usually has a lot of buildings. Growing up in the city there's a lot of cars and it's just really crowded. Also in the city there's an incredible Amount of pollution. Now, the reason why i wrote those words down is because despite it all, I love this city because I've been here all of my life. The artist that I was inspired by was Giorgio de Chrico because in his pieces he uses many things at once. He used a lot of material things. But I also like liked his art piece because there are many things clustered at once and that resembles my drawing. Because in a city, there's always so much going on.

Independent reading

The book that i'm reading is about a high school student who commits suicide. Before doing this she records herself on a set of old cassette tapes explaining 13 reasons why she decided to end her life. She then decides to send those tapes out to each individual who was the cause of Hannah Baker's death. Moreover, a boy named Clay Jensen who is the narrator in first person point of view, is on one of the tapes and he tries to figure out what he did to be on one of the tapes. Because him and Hannah shared a kiss the night of the party. He actually really liked her and had respect for her unlike other people.

The chapter that i'm currently on is about Hannah explaining on one of the final tapes how she has her mind made up about wanting to end her life. She had too many bad things happening to her at once that she just felt she could not cope with any longer. She also felt that she just didn't have a friend to help console her. She went on explaining on how she decided to end her life. She overdosed on pills. All this makes Clay feel worse because there he is listening to a bunch of tapes and hearing Hannah explaining on how she wants to end her life and why. This makes him sick because he truly cared about Hannah and he feels heart broken at the fact that she decided to end her life. He felt closer to her through the tapes

Pop art "diabetes soda"

This is a pop art piece. Well at least it is to me. I got the idea from a soda can. The concept of this is that too much soda is unhealthy and can cause diabetes. The point was to make the soda imperfect because once diabetes ruins with your health, your body becomes less and less perfect. I wanted to add the cheetah prints just because it's my favorite animal print. Instead of labeling the soda " Pepsi" or " sprite", I labeled it " Diabetes." 

The concept behind my art is that the yellow represents a human's good side and the black represents a human's bad side. Now, the reason why there's more black than yellow is because us as imperfect human beings, we're bound to have more of a bad side than having a good side. I used the yellow as a person's good side because it's a bright color. I used black as a person's bad side because it's a dark color and a dark color can be represented as a person's dark side. I believe that colors have a lot of meaning in art.

I pretty much just wanted to show the different feelings people have of marriage. On the last slide I explain more specifically on the topic.

I enjoyed philosophy class. I enjoyed, creating art that expressed us. I also enjoyed learning different things. For instance, I learned about the Allegory of The Cave and about Robert Smithson. He is now my favorite artists.Despite the bewildering and difficult assignments, I still feel like I've learned so much. I've also learned about modern art and conceptual art. PM school was better because we actually had a chance to express our concepts behind the art that we've created which was my favorite part of PM school. I will fondly remember my teacher, Michael, because if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't know about all these things. He took the time and dedication to teach us all that we know about philosophy.