Midterm

The subject of my image is origins and background. I wanted to use my parents as a influence of my self portrait.

The content of my image is a flag as well as a painting. The flag represents my ethnicity and my painting signifies my religion and love I have for art and creativity. This image conveys my religion, my fathers influence in my creative world and my country. I was there when he created it. Basquiat influenced me in the way his painting had his descents. What techniques have I used, Like Picasso said great artists steal they do not copy. This project represents me because its what you see of me literally. 

I am inspired by my mothers and fathers legacy. Here I have learned where I came from. The picture of the Ghanaian Flag (which isn’t here but was in my presentation) had a significant impact on my self identity. My skin, hair and body figure are from kings and queens of Ghana, I just was lucky to obtain it. My parents carried the genetics down to the United States and passed them down to me. My parents also gave me structure as a self identify. We grew up in Christian and that was my parents way of living and building spiritually. Their spirit landed me a proper home and food on the table for breakfast and dinner. They passed down their religious values onto me and named me out of the Bible. That was very meaningful to me because it was how I was raised.