what's your culture? (collages, west la college,sp14)

CULTURE COLLAGES

• WEST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE

• ART 102_SPRING 2014

• Alphabetical order

Arsen Akhinyan

Anjilette Bell

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Patricia Butler

Incidents in The Life

Cecya Delatorre

Keshia EsterHere's my family collage of precious moments.

Robert Fofrich

This image was meant to be inter-tribal,

connecting the southern and northern nations.

I added in some plains indian images

with wixarika colors and face paint.

This image has a picture of hikuri which is a

scared medicine to my people. Again I wanted

to make the image inter-tribal so I drew a

medicine wheel to surround the hikuri as well as

a image of the sun and moon. The sun and

moon are to reflect a balance of

elements such as in yin and yang or masculine

and feminine. Within the Sun I have drawn bear

paws

and an eagle feather. Within the moon I drew

wolf paws and an owl feather. Again this is

meant to include all or our relations and show

a balance in the nations represented within the

image. In addition, I included a verse in Urdu

(my gf is pakistani and speaks both urdu and

english)....

Robert Fofrich

Caitlin Haro

As much control as we think we exert over

our lives, truth be told, we have very little

impact. We're born, we live, we may

marry, we work, and we pass on, leaving

an imprint or not. Significant Numbers - A

Ransomed Life is about moments that

happen - about dates that are significant

to us. Its form is a ransom note, complete

with individually cut out numbers. The

numbers in boldface font are significant to

me, but in this visualization of one

person's life reduced to years on a

calendar, I hope it resonates with

others, and creates a philosophical way

station for self-reflection.

William Lupejkis

Significant Numbers- A Ransomed Life

Stephanie Mabriegranberry

Traci Mitchell

Jonah Montello

Sam Mason

Lydia Montes

Michael Morton

Preston Newsom

Irwing Ornelas

Christopher

Quinn

Who I really am!

Gnostic Heaven and Hell

In homage to Mantegna and the Ducal Palace.

The overall shape of the piece is in a very thick ‘TAU’

cross, which is a ‘T’ shape. This ‘T’ shape was the

historic cross that Romans used for crucifixion.

The very bottom of the cross, with the cat and birds,

is slightly irregular in shape at its sides. This part is

called Ialdabaoth’s Evil Creation. For Gnostics, this

god of creation was

evil because the need to kill life

to eat and live was seen as realities’ inherent evil

design.

This creator god, Ialdabaoth the demiurge, was not

the ‘Most High’ god of the divine.

Moving upward in the artwork, below the crosspiece,

on the viewer’s left is the Emptiness of Space, and on

the viewer’s right is the Emptiness of Time. Between

the two is Hell,

which is contained by the two hands. Hell is

represented as a hill of damned souls with an

enormous skull at the summit.

This is Golgotha where Christ was crucified.

Surmounting the skull is the Archangel Michael

triumphing over the dragon, representing the

apocalypse.

The upper arm of the ‘TAU’ cross has a background

of the Night Sky on the exterior sections and the Day

Sky in the interior. To the viewer’s left is Mystery’s

Perspective and to the viewer’s right is the Blind Eye

of Love

. In the top center of the cross is the Portal of

Heaven.

Dennis Richardson

Luis Rosasguzman

Amber Samuel

Hector Simental

Benjamin Seigert

Harpreet Singh

Desiree Smith

Tatiana Smith.

Kishana Stiner

Mie Takanashi

Shoko

Tauchi

Christina Urrutia

Robel Woldegebrie

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