When brainstorming for ideas on what to do for this project, I looked at the different methods that we experimented with and listened to as a class. I chose to combine two of them. I wanted to make my own narrative by recording periods of time where there would normally be music, without it. I did this on three separate occasions and in three completely different settings. I also chose to find a primary source, and reappropriate it into the message that I wanted to convey through this piece. The track has a very awkward and off-putting feel to it, and that was on purpose. I want the listener to reminisce on things they usually end up thinking of when they find themselves doing tasks while listening to no music. I wanted the text of the piece to make the listener think about the psychological effects of music, and how if can negatively and positively effect their thinking. Does listening to music help you to complete a task? Or does it actually hinder your abilities? Is listening to music good for you? Can it have harmful effects?

Power of the Hood

When brainstorming on what to do for this project, I knew I wanted to do something that not only served as a performative art piece but also included a meaningful narrative behind it. Even though I initially struggled with coming up with an idea to base my photo series one, I enjoyed the freedom of being able to run with whatever idea I finally chose. In this series, I aimed to compare and contrast the reaction of an audience to how different people wore their clothes, hooded sweatshirts to be specific. While these five pictures were taken with my phone and surely do not seem to be of great quality, they surely met my expectations.

The difference in gender, skin color, and overall size between my models surely seemed to impact the way that the surrounding bystanders reacted to their presence. During the process of snapping the hooded vs. unhooded photos of each model, the looks of uncomfort from bystanders tipped the scale toward the photos where the models were told to have their hoods up. You can see in the photos where they are unhooded, no one seems to be paying the models any attention even though they are uncomfortably and awkwardly placed. I posted these pictures on Twitter as a series of 5 photos, and they did not get much of a reaction from my followers. Possibly because the post isn’t the most aesthetically pleasing, or because it is hard to understand what is going on in the photos without an explanation.

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