My SI focuses on how I can show my experience in a different country and how it began drifting me away from my heritage and culture. So I asked myself of how I can show my culture and traditional clothing to others especially other students who are in a different country like myself and remind them of their beautiful heritage just as much as I want to remind myself. The topic is important especially for me because It is about the two different lives I lived in both countries. I explore this question by creating works that show me in my birth country and America. These works led me to the realization about how beautiful my culture and heritage really is which I further emphasized by adding 3D designs on my artwork to show how beautiful the clothing is in images 3,5 and 9. By practicing using beads in different ways I was able to bring out the ……….. of my traditional clothing. I experimented with boxes, salt, ink and beads throughout my artworks. I felt tha...
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In this artwork I want to show my MC looking at a portrait that represents the richness and beauty of her culture. I wanted to show her kind of walking around a museum and seeing this image that speaks very powerfully to her. And I want the person on the wall to represent her ancestors in a way who want her to turn back and accept her roots and see that her culture and traditions are very beautiful.
