Merida Toala

Mystery of the Street by Otto Umbehr, 1928, The Metropolitan Museum of Art The last issue that I want to address, based on this photo, is violence and drugs in America. Although this picture is from an earlier time period, when I look at it I can relate it to another. The mystery of the streets is demonstrated by the narcotics and violence that followed the War on Drugs. Alcohol, pills, needles, guns, murder. The shadows of the people walking caught my attention in the original photo, I altered the image to where the shadows are walking through the streets of crime and drugs. Another neutral photo turned negative.  Working towards improving my drawing skills, feel free to comment!

  Abandoned House by Walker Evans, 1973-74, The Metropolitan Museum of  Art This picture projects poverty to me. In my imagination and personal experience, this is what poverty looks like. In my hijack, I wanted to deepen this narrative. I do not think just because the house looks abandoned and is small, that it signifies poverty. The elements in the picture can give context that this house is not taken care of. Dead grass, tilted structure, no paint. In my sketch, I wanted to emphasize poverty. I was reminded about the struggles that people go through because of how the home looked. I wanted to hijack the image by escalating from neutral to negative. The home is home regardless of how it looks, but a poor mother can not care for her son in today's society in a home like this. A mother does all that she can even beg strangers. Poverty makes you powerless. A woman had no assets, no money. All she had was her small abandoned home, and that was not enough to keep her son so Child...

  This photograph was created by Larry Cook in 2019. I found this piece on the Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) Website. This photo stood out to me because there are not a lot of elements creating a story for the picture. Elements such as emotion, and facial expression. Although body language does play a part in the way I interpreted this picture. I feel as though this picture allows the viewer to imagine their own narrative.  The social issue that I thought about for this image was greed. In today's society,  a lot of people do not appreciate what they have, they are always wanting more. I wanted to portray the idea of greed in this hijack because I felt "what if" one thing were changed about this photo would it change the perspective? I thought about some things that make people greedy, such as money, property, and fame. In my opinion, the body language of the girl can be analyzed in multiple different manners. One narrative that I wanted to portray in my hijack is tha...