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10 Meters

I chose 6 pictures instead of 5 because I couldn't decide on which one to take out. 

New

From Old to New:

The ballet shoes are from when I took a ballet class for about a month when I was 3 years old. The soccer cleats are my newest pair that I bought Wednesday night. I really wanted to showcase the changes that have occurred over my lifetime because something being new constitutes change. 

Reach for Yourslef

Success: the accomplishment of an aim or purpose

I plan to go around and ask some of my friends in this class what success means to them to see how the answers vary

What does success mean to you?

- Being happy with yourself.
- Being where I want to be in life.
- Reaching your goals.
- Having a good paying job and being able to do things in my life that I want to do and when I have kids they won't have to worry.
- Being completely happy with your life no matter what you are doing,
- Being happy.
- You need to get a job, and then a husband and then 6 children and happiness.
- Being content and happy with my life and getting a job that I love doing and having a good family.
- Completing what you want in life that makes you happy.

While a lot of these responses are similar and talk about happiness, each person's happiness will be determined by different things so their versions and ways of achieving success are different.

http://www.codeofliving.com/articles/100-ways-achieve-success

I found this list of different tips and ways to help someone achieve success. I thought that some of these were very interesting because I had never thought of them as ways of reaching success. The thing I thought was really cool was the fact that each person who sees these tips could use them in a different way.

Looking at my contact sheet compared to my final images, I'm really glad I was able to up the brightness of the background to create a lot of contrast between the hands themselves and the background.

Reaching for Yourslef: Final and Critique

This project is by far my favorite project that I ever done for an art class. It actually turned out better than I initially expected and I loved being able to experiment with all of the different colors that my friends decided to use. I had each person paint their hand however they wanted so that each person would be clearly represented by their colors. I really wanted to represent the idea that each person has their own definition of success and way of achieving it. That's why I allowed them to choose their colors and designs. Their colors are a representation of who they are.

Jess:

Ryan and Shannon:

Ryan:

Shannon:

Tessa:

Tessa again:

Zoe:

Everyone:

My favorite picture:

Critique Analysis:

When first seeing my pieces, people thought that the hands were reaching out for something and that it was a very simple meaning. After I explained, they began to realizing that the idea was how everyone has their own way of achieving success and thought it was a very creative way to approach the message. Some questions they had for me were: "Did you edit the hands to enhance the colors?" and "Is there a reason behind the use of hands as your symbol?". I did edit the hands to enhance the colors because I really wanted to create a lot of contrast between the hands themselves and the background. My reasoning behind using the hands as the symbol is because even though we don't always physically "reach" for success, we are still "reaching" for it. They liked the way the group of people was reaching for the words in one of the pieces and thought it would be a good idea to do that in more of the images, but they also thought I could have chosen a better layout for the words. They really liked the simplicity of the project and the way I used the bright colors against an all white background