Midterm - Just Human

For my collage, I decided to include different words and phrases in it. Some are words I consider myself to be or things I find extremely important. I have things such as: health, intelligence, home, and culture. I also added different labels that may not refer to myself but other members of society. I wanted to bring out the fact that we focus A LOT on labels, but at the end of the day I am human, and so is everyone else. There should be equality.  I think words and labels have a lot to do with what we do, they help describe and they help us feel.

I wanted to put together a representation of myself, yet something that people can sort of see themselves in. Since we’re all the same, yet different. I love science, I love the science of evolution and that is the idea behind the fact that we're all the same, DNA wise and anatomy, we're the same species.

I decided to go with a collage, because I think life can be messy. I tend to stress, and when I stress things just get messy. I wanted to do a collage, because I think they're kind of all over the place, yet they're trying to convey one thing. I like the fact that we can make art with words.

I want the viewers to see different parts of life, I included gender, sexual orientation, politics, history, and different motivations that can occur in life. I choose to put the word start at the top because we all start somewhere. How you identify after that, is up to you. But the human and the word 'equal' is at the bottom, because I think it's important to remember we're all human no matter what we are identity is.

The artist that inspired me was Christopher Wool. He makes a lot of art with words, sometimes they’re phrases, and sometimes their single words. They’re interesting to read, because they’re words. They’re pretty transparent, you don’t have to think so far, but at the same time they can have a deeper meaning.

This project represents me because, I like the idea of equality and I think I have never really asked myself the question “Who Am I?”, I only know I’m Katherin. But I can be my intelligence, I can be my home, my health, or my interests. But at the same time, I like when people can relate, that’s why I wanted to create something that not only was me but was human. I am human.