For Project 1, I decided to focus on embalming and mummification which then led me to focus more on the passing of loved ones. With the research I gathered on embalming, I created an art exhibition of various artists' pieces about how they give tribute to someone's family when a loved one passes and I created small poems that makes one big poem about the emotions I have towards my dad's passing. For each project, we have a thinking skill that we incorporate throughout the project.
Contextualization
Contextualization was the thinking skill for this first one. I incorporated it in my project by taking embalming and contextualizing my dads death back when I was three years old as my present self for English. For art, I researched embalming and took that as focusing on the afterlife and death so I researched artists who used the same concept in their pieces of art to create an exhibition.
Art
The first few days of researching embalming, I found that there was a paint color named Mummy Brown that was made from ground up mummies, but was later out of use due to companies running out of mummies to grind up. After multiple days of research, I found 8 artists that use human remains or the topic of the afterlife to create very interesting pieces of art. For example, Michael Butler is an artist that uses cremains to create tributes to the family for the deceased loved one. Butler runs a company in Pennsylvania to called, Loved Ones Art. His company offers commissioned art that includes ashes. Michael Butler uses photographs of where the ashes were released to create oil paintings. A small portion of the ashes get gently blended into the pigments. With the 8 art pieces, I created an art exhibition using ArtSteps for people online to walk through. It will give people more knowledge behind the artists' art rather than being too grossed out from using ashes and parts of the body to even learn the reasons behind. Down below is a document showing all 8 artists I researched and the second document is the process photos of creating the exhibition on ArtSteps.
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English
When coming up with what to create for English, my teacher, Mr. Ward, helped with the idea of writing an eulogy that I would have said from my present self. I was only 3 years old when my dad passed so when I went to his funeral, I was too young to speak very properly or to comprehend what was going on. I found it very hard to write a eulogy for my dad when I barely had any information on him to feel connected enough. I felt that an eulogy expresses all the memories you had with a loved one, but I didn't have anything that I could remember at 3 years old. Mr. Ward then gave me the idea to create a lost of words that I thought of when thinking of my dad and looking at the very few photos I had of him. After creating the list, I wrote 3 sentences for the emotions I felt towards my dad with each word. In the end, I had multiple small poems that was then put together to create one big poem filled with my own emotions. It was easier to create something meaningful towards my dad doing it this way because I was able to just express every emotion I haven't been able to say since I was 3 years old. Down below is multiple documents. The first document, contains all my research on embalming and mummification. Next one is tips I found on how to write a eulogy. Then I have below has every piece of information I have gathered and already knew on my dad and my drafts that led to the final product. The final file contains the final product that was made up of multiple small poems I created to then combine into one big poem. If I wasn't too young at my dad's funeral, I would read this poem as my eulogy. The point I was trying to get across throughout this 4 week long project was to show how people can be affected when a loved one, such as a parent, passes away and the different ways people make tributes to such loved ones.
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