Reflection |
Artist Statement |
How did we explore the truth of war in this project? We explored the Truth of War in multiple ways, Through the book “The Things They Carried”, the Veteran visits and learning history about the cold war, the gulf of tonkin incident and other pieces of history. The biggest things we explored in this project that had an impact on me where the veteran visits and the book “The Things They Carried.” The veteran visits gave me some really deep insight and ideas on how war is and how it affects people. I also took away from those visits that every veteran has a different experience and perspective. A big thing that I took away from “The Things They Carried” is when the book said something along the lines of “You know why you won't believe that that happened? Because it's to crazy to believe, but it really happened” When something along those lines was said it really had me think more about war and people's war experiences. Also when they talked about how Vietnam itself speaks. That part really had me thinking too.
How did you strengthen your skills during this project? Through doing this project I improved my skills of doing group work, I learned how to collaborate more in sharing my ideas about a text. I also learned how to take critiques and add them into my work better, My art work wouldn't have been as good without critique. I also feel like with every project we do I gain a lot of independent work skills that will prove very useful to me in the future. What enduring understandings will you take away from this project? Everybody has their own definition of war or their own beliefs on what the truth of war is, which means that there's no right or wrong answer of what the truth of war really is. I think it's very important that today we find what the truth of war is. I think this because we made a lot of mistakes going into vietnam (in my opinion). It's important to learn from our mistakes and learn from our successes for the next time we make an important decision. You also really can't determine the real truth of war because their really isn't such thing as a real truth of war. Everyone has their own ideas and beliefs on it, sort of like religion and with religion one religion isn't the correct or right religion because everyone believes something different. |
Underlying Truth
Evan Glogowski Digital on Photoshop April 2017 War is hell. A Soldier stands in the fog of his own mind, looking into the eyes of his own self. Not as a soldier but as a civilian and as a veteran after he made it out of his two year service in the Vietnam War. The memories floating above him and the the images within him help set the mood and tone for the piece. The foggy background of this piece gives it a light contrast that brings out the significance of the two figures and shows some texture within the art. The fog also beckons the observer to search for the deeper meaning in the piece too. Within my piece i'm trying to get an emotional reaction from the person observing the art. I want them to see my piece and have it help them understand what i've learned about war and how it affects people on levels much deeper than just wounds on the skin. My title of my art “Underlying Truth” means that there's more to war then just a physical wound on the body. My piece is mainly inspired by PTSD and other effects of war that harm a person on more than just the surface. I used my photoshop skills to create this piece. I've also picked up more skills within the program that proved very helpful to me and definitely will prove helpful in the future. The tools I used like editing opacity and messing around with blending options to edit the images I used helped set up my piece with the right tone and color scheme to convey my message as clear as possible. Through creating this piece i've learned multiple new photoshop skills, most importantly though this helped me learn how to refine my art better. I did a lot of editing throughout creating this. I originally had a completely different idea for my piece that had a different theme to it. In my opinion It changed for the best, i'm proud of the art piece I was able to create. |