Journal 4

For this week I was thinking of building on my idea of shooting what I know. I've been looking at the work of Ruth Erdt's work and Larry Sultan's work just seeing how different artists have photographed their families in the past.

Ruth Erdt's work

Larry Sultan's work

 I also started looking at Ana Mendieta's work. I want my work to be autobiographical but to talk about life, death, feminism and culture. Of course I'm not sure how I'm going to do that, but I want this body of work to be a piece of myself. I want to also discover more about myself through the camera, as if seeing into myself through the lens. I'm not sure if this is what I'm untimely going to use for the thesis show, but I know to get to the point where I'm truly happy with a body of work, I have to just work through it.

Ana Mendieta's work

I've been listening to Amel Larrieux and Hector Lavoe, and wondering what it means to be a bi-racial American woman, in particular half Puerto Rican half African American woman. I want to explore all of these things in a new innovative way, but of course I'm still thinking about exactly how thats going to be.

Amel Larrieux- "Givin Somethin Up" and "Bravebird"

Hector Lavoe- "Mi Gente"