Exquisite Corpse

Pinneapply boy slumbers fury coccoon. 

Colorful lights bleed gooey lines

Wicked strings swim blue trees

Identity Essentials

Cultural Histories 


All of my pictures are in gray scale because I felt like it simplified the images a bit to really zoom in on what aspect I wanted the viewer to identify with.

The texture and thinkness of my hair.

African American hair is usually thicker and coarser than any other race. It's one of the characteristics that identifies my ethnicity. Also the way I style it in a curly afro is apart of my culture. 

My features are apart of identifying my race, culture, family line. 

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character

-Martin Luther King Jr.

My skin is plagued by a common skin disease, Eczema.

I was told when I walk into a room my face isn't seen my biggest attributes are the first thing that's noticed. Is my hair out the ordinary or is my complexion different. Why doesn't my face matter? Black in America. 

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Bio-Map List.

1. Uptown New Orleans Lousiana to Friendswood Texas
2.Mama, Daddy, Sydnee (sister) to Mama, Quencelia (Aunt), Sydnee and then to Mama and Sydnee
1. Immediate Family (all)
1. Whippings when I was bad, hugs,kisses, and playfulness and very motherly (Mama)
     Beat up alot by my sister
     (Same as mother) w/ Father
     (Same as mother) w/ Aunt
2. Very emotional with all alot of tough times
3. Not very spiritual
2.Relationships remained the same with all except my father (became almost depressed, desperate, longing)
3.Silence I was mentally disturbed as a child
3. Kicked out of day care, Lusher, (new orleans) Landolt, Brookside, Westbrook, Clearbrook, Sam Houston (texas)
1. Tony, Alexis, Marissa, Ashley, Desiree, Courtney, Alivia (the bad) Tiree, Brittney, Christine, Kori, Courtney, Kami, Liva, Taylor, Jazmine, Kia (the good)
2.Mama, Daddy, Quencelia, Grandparents (all)
3.Silence. Not as mentally disturbed but memories were blocked out
4. Paper and Pen
5. I wrote my feelings instead of speaking them until they were so bottled up they exploded
6. Grandparents death and death of a different future
7. 2010 I finally fit
4. Dictator of a small country or a successful artist
5. Found religion (God- Baptist Christian)
6. Always been completely straight
7. Secret achievements with myself not in view of others
8. Deathly mistakes made that I like to keep to myself
9. Being far far away hopefully London or Italy and and finally being happy
10. I'ma leader I march to my own drum I've never followed trends I like what I like no matter out of style or not
1. A phoenix
2. I am limitless
3. Passion just to experience everything thats in my grasp
4. I'm superwoman
5. Psychic
6. Death before being completely saved
7. To be completely me without limitations
8. I walk with God even as a sinner
9. My most outstanding ability
10. To each their own
11. Very and proud
12. Addicted to retail
13. Become a dictator of a small country, Break into Area 51, Install a tracking device into one of my friends, Shoot somebody with Truth Serum, Tazz a random person in a crowd, lead the police on a highway speed chase, start a Massive City Riot, Marry Santa, and if all else fails be a successful artist.
14. Since I was a child and because I express my ideas and mind differently from most
15.Animator I want to create the characters like Avatar 
16. No, not as far as I know it's been the same for a while
17."Today I flew" 
11. Greek Tragedy every relationship 
12. Hybrid 

March 5th Lecture Homework "The Art of Picture Taking"

Picture I've taken myself that includes someone I know

Picture that has been taken of me by someone else

Pictures that were taken by someone I don't know, of someone I don't know.

A. what is the purpose of this photo; why was it taken? why do you keep it? why did you choose it for this assignment? What is its significance to you?

-The purpose of these photos were just capturing moments of everyday life that I experience from my eyes, my friend's eyes and a strangers. I kept and chose the photos, because they were quite original. They weren't these everyday photos that most friends half with arms wrapped around each other smiling and posed for the camera; we just snapped pictures of unposed and unplanned moments. The significance of the photos are experiencing life through another person's eyes and outlook.

B. What is the emotional relationship between the photographer and the subject? how does that influence the way the picture was taken? How does it affect the way you look at the photo? What is the photographer' atttude toward the subject? What is the subject's attitude towards the photographer?

-I feel the emotional relationship between the photographer and the subject is the impact they receive from peering into that small whole in the camera and seeing a whole other world or a unique angle that they didn't see before. It influences the way the picture was taken by giving the viewer a piece of them of what they saw and what they felt at that very moment before the picture was snapped. I think the photographer's attitude towards any picture would be just trying to get their point across and their ideas and purpose to be said without words. The subject's attitude toward the photographer should always agree with the photographer's purpose either it be stationed or in motion.

C. In what context is this photo intended to be viewed?, by who, for how long? Do you think you will still remember this photo in ten years?

-I think all the photos were intended to be viewed in a light "let's take a walk in the parka and see what happens" kind of tone. I think the viewers are aimed at people my age who have experienced the going ons in the images and can sit for a moment rethink about the last time they've had a moment such as this and really get a feel for the photo. I think I will definitely remember the photo my friend took of me, because I think it's really extraordinary and different; especially because it's not a picture of my face, but it is a picture of me.

BEWARE! I May Take A Bite Out Of You!

The Agenda was to make a video that is 60 seconds or less and makes people uncomfortable watching it. Cannibalism is what I chose to present to my viewers. Hope it makes them squirm.