Group 4- Zoe Staack, Egypt Bracey, Emanuel Spain-Lopez, Nacere James

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​Group Artist Statement:

In this unit we learned about discrimination and how people chose to express themselves. By reading the poem “We Wear The Mask” by Paul Lawrence Dunbar, we learned and identified how people wear masks to hide their true selves, just so they can fit in. We asked ourselves why people wear masks and if we wear masks in society. We soon found out that people wear masks to hide who they really are in order to fit in with the people around them. When you wear a mask you change who you are as a person. When making the video we learned you should always express who you are.


In this video we showed who we are as people through our hobbies. We showed how we all like doing different things that express ourselves. Also, how these hobbies help us come closer together.


The theme explained in our video is that you can express your true selves  through the things you enjoy doing.

​Zoe Staack's Artist Statement:

In this unit I learned I should always express myself or I might end up hurting myself mentally. I learned the ways people hide who they are and why they do so. I also learned about discrimination against races, and appearance. Meanwhile I made my video I learned I do not wear a mask and I express my true self.


​Egypt Bracey's Artist Statement:

What I want everyone to get out of my video is that I dream of being a cosmetologist and I love my family and friends. In my video I show pictures of me when I was younger and how I have grown up and graduated from middle school. When I was making my video I was thinking about what really means something to me and how I can put all these pictures into one video. I’ve expressed the complexity of myself in this video by putting pictures of me and things that inspire me. I learned that I can express myself and not wear a mask and show who I truly am to everyone.   In conclusion, I hope you learned some things about me and how I strive to  achieve my goals.


​Emanuel Spain-Lopez Artist Statement:
In this video I tried to show another side of my self that I never show and the side that everyone knows. I am very complex, to the point that I discover new things I never knew about. I used technology, pictures, videos, and music to express the complexity of myself. I express myself because I want to be remembered, not just by the people close to me, but everyone. That is why I express myself and I use technology because its the best tool to use for what I want to do. I am Emanuel and I want everyone to know that.       

​Nacere James's Artist Statement:
Technology has affected my way of expressing myself because it has given me the ability to have contact with friends and family over social network, while opening a wide variety of music which is my favorite way of self expression. For example in one of the TED talks he speaks of identity, I define my identity by the friends i choose and the genre of music I listen to.

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