In-Depth project: the streets and garden section

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B24VOAPuwW1WZC1ZQmdxN0tSa1E/view

My city was Moriana. A city hidden in the mountains that is described as a hidden paradise from far, but once you arrive it is dark, has spikes on the walls, people crying, and is an infinite confusing and repetitive paths full of opposite mirrors with no end. Once, the "traveler" arrives it is too late to turn back it is also a city where suicide is very common because of the mental breakdowns of the unpleasant setting. I decided to connect things from my personal life and the conflicts my family is undergoing in my home country at the moment to the assignment. I made a visual piece along with a sound project, one part of the piece written on piano is using only try-tones, which there was a time that for playing "the devils scale" a person would be executed for the fear of the devil being summoned. The piano piece is played on both speakers, but on the right side speaker only is myself reciting a poem i wrote about my country's current situation in english, and decided to write it in Spanish on a shower curtain material and wrote half of the poem on one side and the other half on the other. Placed it on top of the analogue tv, while i put the setting on the tv for channel search which is an endless cycle of searching for channels. This part of the piece connects to moriana's opposite mirrors that never face each other and the endless search for an exit, but never to be found. Now, on the left speaker it is Maduro the current president of Venezuela, speaking to the people at the deceased ex-president Chavez funeral: how he is going to "stabilize the economy or make the streets safer". By combining the three sounds playing in different sequences and synced some at the same time, it creates discomfort and pain to listen like when people were crying in my city. Lastly i choose street objects such as crates and wooden pallets to show the aesthetically pleasing contradicting colors, but in reality is used for trash: same goes for the bed it is actually not a mattress but a frame. From far away it looks comfortable and like you can take a nap, when in fact the whole piece is quite the opposite, you lay to rest and it is hard, along with white noise coming from the tv, and the sound piece behind on the left and right speakers.

Written response to "What is Comics Poetry?"

     Personally enjoyed in the first page second paragraph that starts by making the reader question the meaning behind "comic poetry", then it continues explaining poetry being more than rhythmic stanzas after another, but as form of narrative. Before, reading each page i would look at the images and i found funny that the writer talks about Scott McCloud's "closure" theory, where someone looks at multiple images in a sequence therefore naturally trying to connect them together even though they may be completely different and distant from each other, but the fact they may be put next to each other can create the closure theory. I was drawn to the continues enforcement towards the importance of juxtaposition in comic poetry, how ironic drawing of cartooning will create the reader to linger the mystery behind the puzzle of the panels creating sometimes their own plot if there is no captions.

     The demonstration of connection the panels together is shown in the structure of going back and forth with the angles of characters perception of the other while having a conversation in the car. I think also culture has to do with how western culture has the reading from left to right, therefore depending on the culture of the writer it will show the structure of how to properly read the comic. For most of the reading i was confused on the repetitive use of "openness" which i came to the conclusion the writer is saying he is free for interpretation throughout his work, when in fact at the end he says, "i mean something different than anything can go". I like throughout the reading the constant self questions he made, making it look like a one-to-one conversation rather than speaking to a large crowd the writer's choice of writing style, along with visual interpretations making the reading a lot easier; therefore leaving the answers to the readers imagination instead of giving them a straight answer. 

Small works: garden

link to process and documentation of the performance piece https://vimeo.com/190417811 

I used to go a lot with friends to this abandoned missile silo in the Everglades it's hidden, but it's a spot that I've grown up in.It's a military base from the 1960s during the race to space/Cuban missile and it still has a missile there underground. Since its such a well hidden place gang relations take place , and a mutual friend got shot there and then was found floating in one of the canals there. He was only 18 years old, and a photographer taking pictures found the body. This piece is a tribute to him, the glow in the dark paint and space like soundtrack i played on a casiotone m-85 consists of how the area looks at night which was around the estimated time of death. Since there's not pollution around you see shooting stars clearly at night and can actually look at planets no problem without a telescope. There is a little jail/holding cells for i presume war hostages, and there's a basketball courts where different people helped build a garden there in commemoration to our friend. The continues circle i kept drawing around myself represents vanitas, or the so called infinite circle of life. That is the connection i made to the garden assignment is the one we built for him. This happened two years ago, but I remember is because i went to the silo about two weeks ago, and i remembered everything.