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<\/p>\n For our citizen project, we used the skills used when practicing our street photography to capture an image that reflected our citizen subject. The point of citizen was to understand someone with a different perspective or who has gone through something completely different than you and then to interview them and write a lyrical essay about it. My subject was an African-American girl who had been adopted when she was a baby. During our interview, she told me, “I just sometimes feel uncomfortable.” I incorporated this quote into my image by placing inside the main subject of the photo’s silhouette.<\/p>\n Citizen Artist Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n My listener lyric essay represents the perspective of a young girl who was adopted by a family of a different race. The quote I chose to incorporate into my diptych was \u201cI just sometimes feel uncomfortable.\u201d Through my interviewee, I learned more about the challenges that an individual faces when growing up in a different setting than society assumes.<\/span><\/p>\n My photo shows an African-American girl at soccer practice kicking the ball by herself, with her teammates behind her facing away from her. I chose this image to exemplify my quote because, beyond the fact that she is at practice with her team, I shot the image through a fence so there are blurry lines that separate the girls from one another. The blurry lines represent the boundaries put in place by society, especially when it comes to race. The fact that her teammates are looking elsewhere also evokes a feeling of isolation and some sadness, however, the girl doesn\u2019t look upset to be by herself and appears to have a sense of belonging. These feelings are meant to contradict each other as do the challenges of living and being brought up in a different setting than you are \u201csupposed\u201d to.<\/span><\/p>\n To edit my photo, I used Adobe Photoshop. First, I created a mask of my main subject; adding some color to her clothes and making her pop. I made the rest of my image black and white so that she was the only thing that had color. Creating a selection, I copied her onto a blank canvas to make my diptych. I made her a black silhouette and then inserted my quote onto her silhouette. To make the text fit, I rasterized it and used the warp tool to manipulate the text to make it stretch and reach the edge of her silhouette, while still being readable.<\/span><\/p>\n For part of our Narrative Perspectives Unit, we created Japanese stab binding books. We based these books off of our citizen project. We used quotes that we had obtained in our interviews with our subjects found the correct kanji to communicate it’s meaning and painted them onto vellum sheets. We also printed out those same quotes in English on separate sheets of vellum to include. We created Japanese inspired paintings that we created on Japanese newspaper strips and painted with India ink. We took macro photos of different plants and then on Adobe Photoshop, edited them to make them look like watercolor paintings. You can watch the video down below to see me flip through my book. Most importantly, we created covers for our books. We used Japanese paper and beads to decorate the front and cut everything out ourselves and sized it all. It was really cool to see it come to life after spending so much time on all of the individual pieces!<\/p>\n\t\t\t![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KaitlynE\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-13-at-9.08.23-PM-300x200.jpg\")
Citizen Diptych<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\nJapanese Stab Binding Book<\/h4>\n