Art Project -
For my art project, I took a sensitive topic, and tried to recreate it into a awareness approach I learned a lot about suicide in the world around me during this project, and in a sense it made me more aware of the people around me who could possibly be suffering with mental health.
For recontexulazion, I decided to use Kieth Haring's famous art form of simplicity, pop art, bright colors, and most importantly, how he used simple, light hearted art to symbolize real world problems. I decided to create a art piece, which I titled "Reasons to live" . On one half of the art piece, I decided to show all of the researched top/ most common forms of suicide globally, in a dark color/ black and white approach. On that side, I showed the Suicide forest, aswell as other types of suicide with "warning labels" showing how many people have died due to taking their life to that form of self of self harm. Then, on the colorful bubble I used Kieth Harings art form technqiue to show all of his previous work, with happy people doing positive everyday activities. With this project, I hoped to shed awareness on reasons to live, that out shine all the bad.
I used water colors and paint on a canvas to create the following art.
History Project -
For my history project, I decided to compare Suicide culture in South Korea and Japan. I decided to do this after Mr.Wimmer and I decided it would be important to contextualize. Doing this, I learned a ton about South Korean culture, aswell as Japanease culture. I learned the importance of education in both places and the academic pressure that is put on students and the youth in both countries. In my essay, I conducted my research into a comparision of the two countries, aswell as a decription of both, and the effects suicide has, aswell as prevention.
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Take a look at my essay here!
English project -
For my English project, I decided to write a short story about the Japanese Forest. In my story, you can find two characters, a Japanese woman, and an American woman. In my story, they meet in the forest. One of the woman is native to the area, and the other woman travels here alone with hopes of taking her life in the forest. The woman meet in the forest and help each other leave the forest after telling each-other facts about each countries perspective on suicide, aswell as their own and along the way, decide its not worth it. I wrote my story as a book format, on google slides with photos as-well.
For my story, I re-contextualized a poem, as-well as Soaps-toned it. The poem really helped me write my story's tone.
I also created a annotated bibliography for all my sources.
Read my story here!
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