Sophia

1. Viral Interventions: Read

2. Viral Interventions: Identify

3. Viral Interventions: Compose

4. Viral Interventions: Present (Final)

5. Viral Interventions: Barbara Kruger QCQ

6. Viral Interventions: Propose

7. Viral Interventions: Final Proposal

8. Viral Interventions: Tasks

9. Viral Interventions: Timeline

10. Viral Interventions: Budget

11. Viral Interventions: Process

12. Viral Interventions: Final Documentation

Title: “Cleaning up South Beach” As a resident of Miami for all of my life, one thing i have noticed over the years is that people tend to pollute the beaches more and more as time goes on. Another thing is that these people tend to be tourists, as most Miami residents don’t pollute as they live here. Our project was to educate and bring attention to this issue by making a cleanup operation in Miami Beach. We created an instagram and a website, as well as put our message on bags. Overall, our reception was really great. Some people were interested in talking to us, but most of them just waved and looked at us. The video shows our two best interviews as the audio quality was too bad on most of the other ones. https://sophias42506.wixsite.com/cleaningmiamibeach insta: @cleaningupsouthbeach

Here is some of our progress. We also have some of the progress on our instagram page below.

https://www.instagram.com/cleaningupsouthbeach?igsh=NXd6ZnE2cHJqMXVh&utm_source=qr

We ended up going with my original idea, which was the beach cleanup idea. First off, we changed our sentence to fit more with the ocean theme. “Our shores show the history of those who aggressively corrupt and trump over the environment”. We made a Spanish version aswell as many Spanish speakers are in Miami and we want to open up the discussion to them aswell. We also made mock flyers and bag designs for when we go out to clean up. We will be putting the message on the bag to catch people’s attention when we clean up the beach. We also have an online flier because it’s more efficient as well as it doesn’t pollute as much as an actual flier.

Our sentence was “Corroded stones show history of those who aggressively trump over the fallen grass of corruption.“ The words we chose are usually negative, so we picked out photos that would kind of fit with the theme. We chose to go to the nature preserve for our video. Being perfectly honest here, the editing wasn’t that serious, but i think you could find a kind of theme with the flames aswell as the photos, which most of the nature there was destroyed by a controlled burn. I think it’s a nice coincidence. (The video is really compressed sorry)

My idea for our project is more environmentally orientated. I want to have us all on the beach (Miami beach, key biscayne), specifically beaches which have lots of tourists or visitors. We will be picking up trash and the bags we put the trash in have the sentence in bold, easily legible text. These beaches experience lots of pollution because tourists especially around spring break, and as a Miami resident i want to make it known that people should be more conscious about what they throw out. Alternatively, another audience could be the EPA which is responsible for combatting pollution, and how they should be more active around beaches with sensitive animal populations and enforce stricter punishments to polluters, especially tourists who often get off with a slap on the wrist due to not being from Florida.

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“What it means to point a camera at another person, I think that there’s a brutality about that.”

Comment: I selected this quote because it stands out compared to what most other famous artists think about photography. Most other artists tend to keep their studio life elusive and mysterious, however Kruger is blunt about what happens in her studio that there isn’t much to be shown except reality. I agree, but in a different way because i think photography can showcase someone at their “best”, but most of the time it’s greatly exaggerated and honestly not that big of a deal when it’s planned out. One experience that reminds me of this fact are Quinceanera photos. When i had my quince, i felt that my (professional) pictures didn’t really represent who I really was, but more candid photos taken of me by friends or family that weren’t planned represent me better. Question: Do editing photos or planning them out change the definition/authenticity of the original one? What do you think represents you better, photos which were pre planned and/or modified to fit a certain ideal, or candid photos which catch you in your realest moments?

”Corroded stones show history of those who aggressively trump over the fallen grass of corruption.”

I used the font “Brawler” for my word because the font seems professional, which is usually the settings that corruption take in. The word “brawler” also seems pretty violent/negative so i picked that one.

Title: The Calm inside The Storm Materials: Blankets, pillows, plushies, pill bottles, art supplies

For this final project I chose the emotion "calmness". I then made a little pillow fort out of items that i got from my house. This entire piece is just items that help me calm down/stress relief. The sketchbook represents me using drawing as a coping mechanism, and the plushies are a source of comfort for me. The pills (which are empty) represent my history with anxiety and depression medication. Overall, i wanted it to be very small and contained purposely as i didn't want it to represent my whole self, only a part of me that i wanted to acknowledge.

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So for my installation, i decided to go for the theme of “calmness”. The first thing that came to mind when i thought of that was a pillow fort, and then id fill the interior with things that usually help me relax or calm down when i have bad anxiety episodes. I want to make the space really relaxing and comforting to be in with plushies, my sketchbook and pill bottles (empty don’t worry), all things that calm me down. I don’t have a specific orientation in mind yet, however i feel as if doing it naturally instead of having one planned out really helps add onto the piece.

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