Gallery Post

 

 After visiting The BURN Project by Antoinette Ellis-Williams one of the art pieces that stood out to me was the altar with close pins in the bucket and the wall filled with the people, place, organizations that people loved. The wall with words was basically what people wrote on the close pins on the alter. Most of the words were either special events in history, comfort food, artist, music artists, and just words that made them feel the power. What I can interpret from this is how feeling powerful or a moment/person who made you feel powerful belief in yourself. Or just overall what makes you, you. It was very interesting seeing people’s responses, there were words like Lizzo, mac and cheese, lemons, H.E.R, and even the word twerk. 

"This nightmare is one experienced by so many families trying to pay for college only worsen I couldn’t enroll in classes for the fall semester due to financial holds on my account (Drew, 2020)". Everyone has been through something tragic whether is financially or physically we also look at the bad side of things instead of what might be at the end of the storm. Just to think about the words and how these events, people, or comfort things helped these people with whatever they were going in life. What I wrote in my close pin was Rise & Resist Protest because that organization makes me believe more that there are people on our side. People who want to see change happen in the world and fight for our rights. 

  The second art piece that stood out to me was the table in the middle called Underground Map. This piece brought me sadness because the first thing that came to mind was the woman who was the maid for the "masters" and how many of those close pins came from different women who would be abused sexually and mentally. When you look closer at the table there is some close pins black, red, green, and normal color. The black-colored close pins gave off people who were burned, red meant people who were physically abused. "Movies and television programs light up walls, flicker, and go out; but with still photographs, an image is also an object, lightweight, cheap to produce, easy to carry about, accumulate, store". When looking at these photographs they speak for themselves, they are just powerful and once you start thinking more into you get somewhere with the meaning behind it. 

 This selfie is me at a Billie Eilish concert and her music really did get me through some tough moments in my life. She was the second word I wrote on the close pin because she makes me feel more confident in myself and how one is not alone. "To collect photographs is to collect the world".  To me, photos capture the moment but you relive in the moment years from now. Just being in that kind of atmosphere where other people know how to feel because her music speaks for itself. She is someone who makes me feel powerful to this day and her music is my comfort place like I could just get lost in her music and forget everything that is happening in my life.