Defining Moments Project
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The year 2020 has been monumental and will have immense historical significance. The Covid-19 pandemic has upended the lives of hundreds of millions globally causing physical, social, and financial concerns. The Black Lives Matter Movement has highlighted racial injustices and the need for social change. The presidential election will tackle platform issues including healthcare, national defense, immigration, environment, fiscal policy, and social justice. These are just a few of the national and global issues we face today. It seems possible, that we are entering into an entirely new historical epoch that will present challenges as well as opportunities.
We are a UTSA community and desire to unite in our experiences and share our stories during this unprecedented time. The following is a collaborative interdisciplinary project designed to gather, create, and preserve the UTSA stories of the present.
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Item 2020 Was A S*** Show(2020-11-27) Wall, Derrick2020 has been a rough year, for everyone that has hopefully lived through this year. To many truly despairing moments, and that takes a toll on the mental. I decided to put my feelings of what I went through, and many others has gone through this year. And made it a grimey, stressful, animation to sum up this year and the effect on mental health. It was stressful, downright heart breaking, but at the end I'll still keep my hope. Because we got to keep up the fight!Item 2020, America Revealed(2020-12-10) Dehoyos, ToniThe 2020 pandemic hit and a lot of things changed and thousands of people were against guidelines and mandates, turning a blind eye to something very serious. I was inspired to create a print for depicting America and Americans as whole as careless and selfish. We preach unity and safety from others yet still find ways to build a wall and politics plays a big part in it. In my piece I chose Uncle Sam as my subject matter as he is the symbol for America. Uncle Sam is shown as a bust being carried by a person who is divided into two representing division in our country as well as Uncle Sam wearing his mask improperly as a way to signify America’s poor execution in handling the virus only to be met halfway.Item #BLM, What is #BLM?(2020-12-02) Gorham, CharlesMy video is about the #BLM movement, its creation and ideals.Item Cope: Dealing with the COVID-19(2020-11-30) Sierra, GreciaI wanted to shift towards my journey of the first few weeks of this current pandemic. An event that will be remembered long after it has ended, much like other pandemics before it. I used my art to express the motions of the days that went by.Item Diary(2021-05-09) Rodriguez, MariaMy work is about the looming and lingering anxiety felt in the beginning of quarantine. How words and emotions can be expressed visually.Item Disinfect(2020-12-10) Vilches, ItzelIn a pandemic, our physical belongings aren't the only thing we should frequently wipe clean from viruses. With every notification and news headline, my headspace became contaminated with thoughts of anxiety, doubt, and fear of the future. I was inspired by a poem of a fellow UTSA student.Item The Disturbance (within my thoughts)(2020-12-01) Sims, MonaeThis is a visual representation of a combination of 3 other people work which includes, two english majors' poems, and one architecture student's design ideas.Item Inside Me(2021-05-04) Sanchez, PaolaThis project is about an essay I read about a students going through her hardships with asthma. I used her story and my story with my condition, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and created a diary with entries from other females going through these 2 conditions.Item It's all the same(2020) Herrera, MadelineThis print was inspired by personal accounts, rooted in those around my life and general themes of isolation that many faced in 2020. As I absorbed the projects did themes of loss, mental struggles and a sense of chaos come to the forefront. The feeling of being in the between, as time almost withering away while daily responsibilities became an overwhelming background noise to a world on fire.Item Living in the House of Usher(2020-12-06) Collier, CatherineThis year, we have experience a broad range of emotions in a short amount of time. We have attempted to carry on with daily activities and our monotonous routine when anger, mania, depression, anxiety are all creeping up on us. Much like the main character riding into the House of Usher, we are able to observe these emotions and the dread they will bring us as we walk towards them. I wanted to juxtapose imagery of ordinary, day-to-day activities, hindering those anxieties discussed earlier.Item A Love Letter to Houston(2020-11-27) McLain, GillianI was born and raised in Houston, Texas as was most of my mother's immediate side of the family. Our city is very important to me, its vibrance and style is so unique, our communities are resilient. I wanted to pay respects to the streets, buildings and art that I love, while also bringing attention to the greater humanitarian issues in Houston a lot of which due to COVID-19. I hope that the appreciation I have of where I come from is evident in my work, but most importantly this video is made for those who have the resources to help out the homeless, LGBT+ and black communities in the greater Houston area.Item Marsha P. Johnson Painting(2020-11-30) Rodriguez, CassandraIn this video, I created a time lapse of me painting LGBTQ rights activist, Marsha P. Johnson, as well as discussing a few of her accomplishments and contributions to the gay community.Item Nagorno-Karabakh(2020-12-01) Juarez, ChristopherThe work revolves around the recently "resolved" conflict that erupted in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Armenia, (internationally recognized Azerbaijan), that ended in a Russia brokered cease fire.Item No Regrets(2020-11-30) Rush, MorganWe all know how terrible 2020 has been. Collectively it’s been tough world wide due to Covid. Personally I had my first heartbreak and have been dealing with it throughout the year. My work expresses my need to move on from what I feel I missed out on. To continue my life and my art through expression of emissions even if they don’t tend to make since as I run them from my mind into the open air. Vulnerability is a very new topic for me to cover. This piece is about personal growth and development and leaving no regrets it the wake of that.Item Objects & Reflections(2020-12-01) Vega, Joe RaymondThis piece is a reflection of Human Rights broken down into basic geometric shapes. The piece focuses on the contrast between light and dark, yin and yang, and the value of everything in between. Using sound and visuals that have a heightened contrast and generating an environmental space for objects to live together in looped harmony.Item Pandemic 2020(2020-11-11) Shaw, CatalinaMy work chronicles the views and experiences of various people during the covid 19 pandemic.Item Pierrot The Fool(2021-05-11) Borazjanian, AriThis is an art book about balancing many life changes and the flexibility needed to keep everything at peace. This is shown through a clown perpetually walking on a tightrope going nowhere throughout the book. The clown/circus motif is to show how while people are struggling to balance all these changes they still have to "show face" and act like nothing is challenging them.Item Repeat(2020-11-30) Croom, AllysonMy work is about the monotony that has become life since the pandemic began.Item The Walls Stare Back(2020-12-10) Jimenez, LilyThis picture is inspired by my recent trials in a 2-week quarantine. Essentially trapped by the walls of my room with no opportunity of leaving my space, the idea of being confined overrode my thoughts. As I analyzed the area in which I had become so used to over two weeks, I noticed the physical and metaphorical busyness of a room with three doors all placed within mere feet of each other. Despite these doors' presence and the cliché metaphor of doors being a symbol of opportunity, they appeared warped in my mind, slowly encroaching upon my space and tightening my perceived bubble of comfort. The ceiling speaks a similar story; when I stared at it, it felt as if it was looking back at me as it inched closer, further pressing me between itself and the walls. The structure of the room engulfs the viewer with its entrancing, warping lines.Item We Are: A Human Expression(2020-11-28) Dejesus, LeonardoThis work is about how everyone struggles, and how the pandemic is making that strikingly clear.