Midterm- We’re All the Same

In my project, I painted the Guatemala flag and the Honduras flag in half. I chose these two countries because this is where the most important people in my life are from. Like you know every country has a their own coat of arms. And instead of drawing their own personal coat of arms, I printed and cut out the faces of those close to me and combined them into one. I put the faces in the center of the white stripes because the white on a flag always represents peace and purity and this is what i feel when I’m around these people. What I mostly want to get out of this is that people see that no matter where we are from or what our culture is, we are all the same people. 2 different artists from Guatemala and Honduras are very much related to this project. Andres curruchich and José Antonio Velazquez both are the most famous artists from their country and their work focuses on the country itself. Curruchich focuses more on the culture and clothing of Guatemala while Velazquez focuses on the one city in Honduras that he fell in love with. Andres Curruchich paintings are on the Guatemalan culture. Having been there a couple times for several weeks, I’ve visited a few important parts of what makes Guatemala up. Andres seems to touch upon all of it. His paintings include exactly how they dress, eat and live. His painting are shown all over a small town, San Juan comalapa, which has since become the centre of Mayan art in Guatemala. José Antonio Velázquez is the most we’ll known Honduran painter. He found his inspiration when he moved to a city called San Antonio de oriente. If you look up his paintings it’s all based on this one city and this compares to my project because I want to focus on that one things that connects us to this Honduran flag. Where you’re from is always gonna be something important to me. And the best way to show it is simply the flag itself. I feel like this project represents me because I always think of the family I have back at home. I’ve visited my country before and I fell in love with everything it had to offer. It became a big part of who I was which is why I put the national flags.