I decided that I wanted to change up this week’s post by featuring some photos of blooming flowers that I saw on campus this past week. These pictures are some of my favorites, as I decided to utilize my pro mist filter on my camera to defuse the natural sunlight to add a soft glow to some of the pictures. Also, I decided to make sure the colors were vibrant to show how youthful the flowers looked. Enjoy 🙂
Name: Jasmin Lee
Mix: Black & Chinese-Malaysian
Major & Year: Creative Writing & American Culture; Senior
Q:Â How has being mixed affected your campus experience?
A: Being mixed is a unique experience for everyone, but my childhood in navigating different cultures has allowed me to find similarities with anyone I’m talking to. This has helped me make new friends throughout college and open myself to new opportunities.
Q:Â What do you wish more people knew about the mixed experience?
A: I wish people knew that it can be exhausting to fit into expectations of who you are supposed to be based on how you look. Being mixed is an experience that can be both exhausting and exciting at the same time, but I am learning to be okay with being myself around others and not who people think I should be.
Q: What are you most anxious about right now?
A:Â I am most anxious about graduating. Going out into the real world and adulting seems scary but I am just trying to take it one step at a time.
Q: What kind of person do you aspire to be?
A:Â I aspire to be a person who is unapologetic about who I am. I am still working on this but I am learning to accept how my identity impacts my view of the world, and being okay with it.
Hi y’all!
This week I just have a fun little post of some lettering I did today, inspired by the warm weather!
When I’m lettering for fun, I typically follow a pattern: I’ll start by filling a page with bare bones lettering, nothing fancy. After that, I’ll go through a do a couple rounds additions to each word, until I like how they all turn out. Today I also tried something new and added a bunch of fun little doodles around the words, which I think really brought the page together. I hope you enjoy!
Hey guys,
This week I am showing some of the collage work that I have been working on! In my practice, I focus primarily on women and the female experience. I was recently tasked with creating a book multiple times over, cutting it apart, and putting it together to make a story. I love collage and think that it is really calming to do. I have lots of old graphic design books that were gifted to me that I use in my work. I like incorporating my poetry and writing in my collages as well as some of my illustrations. Collages can be a really expressive medium. I love thinking about color and how it will affect how the viewer perceives the text. I sewed this book together and love how it came out. I feel like it is a really good representation fo what I believe in.
See you next week!
Marissa
Name: Maeve Lucas
Mix: Transnational Adoptee
Major & Year:Â BCN; Junior
Q:Â How has being mixed affected your campus experience?
A: It definitely took me some time to find my place on campus freshman year. There were certain groups I didn’t fit into as well because I was mixed and didn’t fully identify as one ethnicity. Mixed@Michigan has really given me a community that has allowed me to grow into myself.
Q:Â What do you wish more people knew about the mixed experience?
A: Almost every mixed person has gone through some type of scrutiny. While everyone’s experience is unique, mixed people often face what most minorities experience. Though we can also be scrutinized by our own cultural group. It’s a very “in-between” feeling.
Q: What kind of person do you aspire to be / who is the most influential person in your life?
A: My mom. Sometimes people feel like transnational adoptees feel like they were “saved” by their adoptive parents, and I think that terminology is flawed. While my mom is my best friend and biggest supporter, she is not my savior. My mom is my mom like your mom is your mom. I aspire to be a mom like her. If I could even be half as great as a mom she is, I would be happy with that.
Happy Wednesday everyone! This week I wanted to talk about using positive and negative space. If you don’t already know what that is, or need a quick refresher, here’s an example:
Positive space is the thing itself, and negative space is the lack of the thing, or what’s around it. On the left, you can see that the “Hi” is written using negative space, because the color exists all around it, but the letters themselves are empty. On the right, the “Hi” is an example of positive space, because it is the thing itself (by contrast, the white all around it is negative space).
This is something a lot of artists make use of, or at least are aware of, and the lettering community is a part of that too!
I was feeling inspired by spring (despite the icky weather today), so I drew some more in-depth pieces involving flowers that use positive and negative space.
Which one do you like better? I hope you all have a great week and hopefully we’ll start to see some flowers blooming soon 🙂
