Blog#5 Questions about our writing...

1. What aspects of the American Icon artist statement successful for you and why?



The most helpful aspect of the American Icon Artist Statement is the thing where we go from past to present to past to present to past to present etc. because my regular writing pattern happened to be in that pattern. I think it makes sense for it to be like that also because it goes back and forth to show the connections between me and my icons.



2.What writing tips have been the most helpful and why?



The most helpful writing tip is the one about concerts not pancakes because it allows me to go back and reread and take out the nonsense words. Also the watch the adverbs tip' I went back and reread my artist statement and took out unecessary words to keep it to the point.

3. What aspect of the Artist Statement has been most challenging? Why?

The most challenging part of the artist statement for me is to add in my place in the continuum. It was hard for me to add because I don't want to just bluntly say: my place in the contiuum of icons is.... but I managed to get it in their more subtly but I'm not sure if its clear enough.

4. What is the most challenging writing tip and why?

I think the hardest writing tip is concert not pancakes because I am a swooper not a basher and it is harder for me to stop and make sure every word is a bang! instead of a blah.

5.

Every day I encounter people defiling what civil rights activists have worked so hard to bring to an end. I try to tell them what they are doing is wrong and why it’s wrong, but they don’t care enough to take the time to understand. On rare occurrences, people do listen and I see a genuine change in that person and how they carry themselves. The others simply carry on their lives day to day with the same smug look on their faces and I know that I just can’t give up on them now. I have come too far from where I started from.
The others look at me with questioning eyes; What is she? They make assumptions and give me racial groups but become baffled by my tan, yet not dark enough to be ‘black’ skin. They make stereotypical judgements about me before they meet me and wonder why I’m not the loud ghetto black girl they thought I would be, after they get to know me. Once they find out I am part Asian that opens a whole new door for racial slurs and jokes. They find it funny, but I find it ignorant. Don’t they remember that everyone is created equal? People who make jokes like that either do not know the struggle their ancestors endured or do not care about the hard work and many years that went into it. My father did not want me to grow up to become one of them.


questions: Does it flow? is there any confusion about who I am referring to at any moments in these two paragraphs? do you see my place in the continuum?