One of my favorite works that Julie Greene made was “At Home with Family”. There is so much that this artwork holds, yet so simple. What first grabbed my attention is the Japanese style of art that she implemented in this work. Japanese artwork is so beautiful by its single brush of motion and flow of natural strokes. It’s so simplistic how the basis of this art starts with but so complicated at the same time. In this work, she chose to have the viewer look from a bird’s perspective looking through the window and witnessing a family dinner. One of the most important things in life is our family because family is the beginning of where home is. A group of people that surround you and love you endlessly until the end. It is where you feel comfort and safety. Where one is safe to be themselves and have support. The only people that have been in your lives from the beginning. Family is an important thing, and a family dinner feels so wholesome and warm. It’s one of the most wholesome events that we can get. Julie Greene knew this and wanted to capture that feeling. Many people don’t have that fortunate capability to be with family and are instead locked up all alone.
My second favorite artwork would have to be “J.B. Burgers”. For one, just how the design is I found very nice. It’s all mainly just one tone of color but the different linings and shapes really satisfy my eyes. It makes me analyze very thoroughly throughout the whole work. Secondly, the story behind it is so unbelievable. Jonathan Barr, who is the exoneree that this work is dedicated to, was sentenced to prison at the age of 14 for 85 years. Just the fear that one will have at that age to be taken to prison. There was no good life to be lived after that point. All the wonderful things that we go through during our lives like high school, relationships, college, graduation, marriage, and children. All that has been taken away from this man. The time that he spent in prison can never be returned. Time passes and we can never get it back. The last normal thing he did before going into prison got a burger. Very hard to imagine that people have lost precious times in their lives for things that had nothing to do with them. As Bell Hooks states, "Clearly we cannot dismantle a system as long as we engage in collective denial about its impact on our lives". Nothing can be changed if everybody continues to ignore the fact of how dreadful the justice system is to us the people. We need to be conscious of the horrible things that people had to endure and take a step forward.
For my selfie picture, I had taken a photo of my mom and dog. We went to grab coffee and eat some pastries one day. I don’t see my mom as much since we don’t live with each other and because she works in a different state so I thought it would be nice to spend some quality time with her and my dog. On the surface it might not sound as much but during that time it was simple but wholesome. A warm comforting place to be when you are just spending quality time with family. And the fact that moments like these have been taken away from people unfairly is just cruel.
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