1.)

• Who are the subjects in Elle’s photos? How do they choose their subjects? People, family, and friends she wishes to capture photos of really strong relationships. They choose by staging these sort of definable and meaningful portraits to show the hardness and realism.
• What does Elle point out as important in a portrait? That something can live there and not necessarily have to be definitive, also points out fiction. How does this deviate from typical ideas around what a portrait is? It is differentiated from documentary.
• How does Elle connect their identity as a queer artist with the way they make work? It is undefinable and unboundried and has to have a space of possibility to have any possibility at all. It is never definitive

• How does Cuevas expand the definition of drawing in her work? To stop using the references to activism because everyone has agency to react to daily life and generate political actions. HEr work is the research she does.
• In what ways does she shift typical ideas around political activism and social change? She talks about what we as people want and will do with our daily lives to cause action and make a difference.
• How does her work open up ideas for you about your own civic engagement? Do you find yourself agreeing with her or wanting to challenge her ideas I find myself agreeing people need to be aware and active in politics and take action toward things that are not right or just.

2.)      I have chose Dan Herschlein who focuses on horror work to bring comfort. I really understand what he is getting at, he points out that there isn’t supposed to be a scary or threatening but instead show what is left out of the equation. I am very intrigued in his work of sculptures that he uses horror to bring about a wanting for comfort.

3.)   Reflection Questions

• How have your ideas changed around what drawing is/can be? If so, explain. When I came into this class I had a knowledge that being good at art was the ability to be precise and show specifics, to be as accurate as possible to show realism. This is always what people compliment me on so that must be what shows good work from bad work. But i have now realized there is no such things as bad work and fictional scribbly lines can be just as beautiful and meaningful as something that was drawn out of realism.
• What has been the most challenging part of the class? Being able to cope with an online nature and not experiencing the collaboration and being able to interact thoughts on work and strength
• What aspect/assignment/part of the class has been the most relevant to you/your life? The project 2 density drawing has been the most relevant forcing me to open up to the idea of how I depict what I see and what materials I use to show the depth.
• What aspect/assignment/part of the class has been the least relevant to you/your life? I suppose the least relevant has been contour blind drawing, I was unable to be satisfied and happy with my outcome I wanted to show what I saw and I failed.
• Where do you want to most improve in your drawings going forward (can be in terms of technique, concentration, understanding of art, anything)? I want to improve on the different approach of art being not just realistic statures. I want to focus on the imagination part of art allowing your feelings to take control

3. Find one artist from the list that grabs your attention and answer the following questions in a blog post on your u.site: Mark Thomas Gibson

• What materials are they using? Ink for many of his works and paint in others. Is their work 2D (drawing/painting) or 3D (sculpture)? His work is 2D (Drawing/Painting)
• What emotions or feelings do you get from looking at their work? A comic sort of feeling that makes me reflect on American History today and in the past
• How does their mark-making or use of line in their work evoke that feeling? His line work and mark making is used to give a concept of what is present. His work is all cartoon/comic sort of feeling

4. Spend at least 45 minutes drawing from a still-life making use of the artist’s line quality or mark-making