Self Portrait turned Propaganda Poster

The Self Portrait:

    I decided to create my self-portrait around this photograph I had my mom take of me for a different class last semester. The point of the photograph for me was to capture culture and dimension, hence why I used a black and white filter, with high contrast to stress the form and contour of my skin and cultural jewelry. I decided to use this photograph to make my self-portrait in Adobe Photoshop to expose my teacher and classmates to my culture of being Native American. Since this project is literally about representing who I am I knew right away that I had to showcase my culture for all to see. 

The Propaganda Poster:

    I choose to use my self-portrait for my propaganda poster to expose the blindness of many in America who are uneducated and aware of the missing and murdered indigenous women and even men of Native America. I thought this would be a smart and effective way to bring awareness to my teacher and classmates, because even if they did know about, now they know that someone who sits in the same room and goes to the same school experiences these types of fear in my and our everyday life. To the point that because of my heritage, if I myself were to go missing, then the media and the public will never know about it, and that is not something I would ever think of imaging would happen to anyone in general. I thought that was be an incredibly impactful art piece to create and show to others, so much so that I will be printing out copies and distributing them wherever I please.