This work is an 8” x 10” double exposure artwork. It was created by Jordan McKinney. The title is, “Were not all the same.” The artwork was created in Media Arts 2 Class in May, 2016. I used Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 to create this piece, and my self-portrait photograph was taken with a Sony Nex-5 camera. The portrait was fused together using many techniques such as level adjustments, masks, and filters. I used photos that I found from Google Images. The images used are below.
I used a cool tone filter to put all of my images in place to set just right. In the stairs layer I blended my face and the image together and lowered the opacity to emphasize the journey I’ve took so far in my life. The Clouds image in the background emphasizes the controversy between my feelings and my religion. This image tells my story of how when I was just a child I would always be the outcast and be the one everybody thought was weird. My image also tells of the controversy between my religion and me because I’ve always had feelings towards male figures but they would never work because of my religion.
When I started school I thought it would be a place of enjoyment and to study and make friends. Little did I know that most people would be cruel and spit on you like you were dirt. Everyone had standards and if you didn’t meet them then you couldn’t be part of the crew. When I finally got to 7th grade I identified as gay just to fit in. When I was in 8th grade I knew I didn’t have feelings towards women, but I still didn’t feel emotions towards men. And I realized that after I got to 9th grade everyone started coming out and that’s when all of the followers I had because I had identified as “gay” started to fade away. After that I felt humiliated. I remember laying in my bed crying when I was just in 8th grade just because I wanted to fit in, I had changed to please everyone else. And it did help me overcome my fear of being out there and being the spotlight of attention. But it didn’t help my religion problem. I feel that I have been confused and labeled since 7th grade. So because of all of these events that have occurred I really don’t identify as anything because I can’t be who I want to be because my religion doesn’t have passion towards those feelings. The men in my head and the clouds in the background represent all of my feelings. And the stairs represent the things that I have overcome in my life from a child to now a teenager.
I feel that my artwork that I produced is a very big success. My opinion is that I did a very well job representing my feelings and emotions behind my story. This artwork is a big hit overall of my other pieces because I feel that I put the most time and thought into this piece of art work. I also feel that I followed all of the criteria to create the artwork and that’s what made it what it is.
I used a cool tone filter to put all of my images in place to set just right. In the stairs layer I blended my face and the image together and lowered the opacity to emphasize the journey I’ve took so far in my life. The Clouds image in the background emphasizes the controversy between my feelings and my religion. This image tells my story of how when I was just a child I would always be the outcast and be the one everybody thought was weird. My image also tells of the controversy between my religion and me because I’ve always had feelings towards male figures but they would never work because of my religion.
When I started school I thought it would be a place of enjoyment and to study and make friends. Little did I know that most people would be cruel and spit on you like you were dirt. Everyone had standards and if you didn’t meet them then you couldn’t be part of the crew. When I finally got to 7th grade I identified as gay just to fit in. When I was in 8th grade I knew I didn’t have feelings towards women, but I still didn’t feel emotions towards men. And I realized that after I got to 9th grade everyone started coming out and that’s when all of the followers I had because I had identified as “gay” started to fade away. After that I felt humiliated. I remember laying in my bed crying when I was just in 8th grade just because I wanted to fit in, I had changed to please everyone else. And it did help me overcome my fear of being out there and being the spotlight of attention. But it didn’t help my religion problem. I feel that I have been confused and labeled since 7th grade. So because of all of these events that have occurred I really don’t identify as anything because I can’t be who I want to be because my religion doesn’t have passion towards those feelings. The men in my head and the clouds in the background represent all of my feelings. And the stairs represent the things that I have overcome in my life from a child to now a teenager.
I feel that my artwork that I produced is a very big success. My opinion is that I did a very well job representing my feelings and emotions behind my story. This artwork is a big hit overall of my other pieces because I feel that I put the most time and thought into this piece of art work. I also feel that I followed all of the criteria to create the artwork and that’s what made it what it is.