Month: November 2016

My parents are from a small island in the caribbean called Dominica. It is almost always confused with the other hispanic country called Dominican Republic. They are two different countries and cultures. Dominica is a very small island with a lesser population than a lot of places. So i would most importantly like for my children and who I marry to know that it exists and where it is located on the map. The hand made map of the world by a dominican artist named Tam Joseph, is a perfect way to show them. A dominican artist work showing where countries are located. It is very beautiful nickname The Nature Island because it is an barely touched with manmade things.

This painting is by another dominican artist named Pauline Marcelle, More Mas Bend Down Boutique. This art works exudes the positive vibes that is celebrated in our country in a significant way twice a year. One time of the year being carnival and the other being creole festival. Creole festival is celebrated in remembrance of dominica becoming independent on November 3. I had the pleasure of attending carnival which is a festival with bands playing music from big trucks circling the city of roseau. People with costumes join the band singing and dancing following as the trucks go up and down the street. I fell in love with my culture once I experienced that. I’m sure a lot of people have had that feeling visiting carnival throughout several cities in the US. So this painting of carnival being played out plays an important role to personal culture. I want to be able to pass this music filled with positive vibes and joy down generations.

Arnold Toulon seems to be a very independent artist who is underrated. I found him on google and could not find a website for his art work but it was displayed in his google account. I am unable to see a name for this image but he is from the island of dominica. This is a painting of what woman would wear while participating in carnival. It is more updated than the wardrobe portrayed in Pauline Marcelle painting. This is important to me because i love dressing up and participating in carnival. I have done it several times in the US. Participating in these festivals i have had the best time of my life. Its is important for me to pass this part of our culture down to other people because I love to show people a good time and this would be the definition of one.

Memes can be considered art in so many ways. It is sometimes close to pop art because they recreate images of people to tell a story behind the photo. The caption becomes the title of the art and sometimes you can never find out what the original picture was meant for comparable to when classical works are left for us to figure out until this day. I log on instagram and tumblr everyday and it always lightens my mood with all the hilarious memes created, those are my favorite ones. For example the one i created it has all to do with the presidential elections. I did not want Donald Trump to win but when I browsed the internet I was able to refocus my energy. Like said in the video people literally communicate to strangers their personal experiences and this to me is what art is about.

Jenny Holzer is a very interesting artist. Who knew that her work would even be considered as art? Her truisms are inspirational, she breaks down life into a series of simple words for those who do take a couple seconds to watch the words go from right to left and some go up or down the digital screen i know they can most likely relate. She tries to grab the attention of people by making her words light up or make the background cute. Her art work reminds me of the quotes that are posted on instagram nowadays but she created this style long before instagram was invented. My personal truism is “No good thing is too good to be true”. I always have a problem with thinking that when something is going good it is going to go bad. For example in relationships if things are too peachy creme I tend to not bask in happiness instead I tend to worry that something is going to go wrong. But when I say to myself “No good thing is too good to be true” it relieves me because I can appreciate the good times and if something goes wrong and I have to let it go, it wasn’t a good thing.