Digital Imaging

The feedback was extremely helpful in further expanding the concept of this idea. I plan to provide more animations to add deeper element to display, while developing a smoother transition.

Black Experience: Men 2020 While engaging in the classroom about the African-American/Black-American history, the initiation of the usual topic would begin with the Transatlantic Slave Trade period and continue to the contemporary view of black people in the United States. This piece was designed to highlight the decay of black people from once having the freedoms and luxuries to media targets for dismantling the agenda of active or silent protest for injustice. The first individual was the warrior persona before the introduction of colonialism. The second, the 400 years of chattel slavery and removal of identity. The third, the rise of the Black Panther Party to empower the black community through the harsh environment surrounding the Jim Crow era. The fourth is representing the contemporary black man using a hooded man to represent the shooting of Trayvon Martin eight years ago that set the precedent for the continuing injustice of killing minorities without probable cause no...

Foundation of Project 2

I wanted to highlight the decay of the African American from once being an individual of status to be reduced to cattle. I was thinking of having the individual clad in their respective garment of status and possibly a crown. As the animation continues the individual's jewels begin to melt and the garments are torn and replaced with the chains and ragged clothing.