Final Reflection

In my time at NYU and abroad in South Africa, I have been given the opportunity to work both alongside and in the communities of amazing people. The majority of these peeps being women simply because of the gender and women’s politics that I have focused my major and work on. I have taken the issues I care about and attempted to intersect them with different multimedia platforms. For example, I made a short film that touches on both the prevailing topic of sexual assault on college campuses and street harassment in New York City. However, I have yet to apply my writing, photographs and doodles to the mix. With that, I want to utilize the skills that I am gaining in this course to explore yet another art form that can be used to grapple with identity politics and and my own experience as a young person in the postmodern world. A Zine seems to be both the logical and …show more content…
The goal is to use myself as an example of just how potent cultural influencers are in my life and how I perceive life. The struggle I have is with trying to build these feelings and sentiments into visuals rather than written words with visuals to accompany them. Some of my ideas for combating this issue is to use intricate stick figures to supplement stories and also play more with lenses ie. a camera lens, sunglass lens (as I did last week), eyeballs as lenses etc. to show the world as it molds to my personal experience. While it may come out to be a magazine of my personal life experiences, I am going to try and stretch it to be more encompassing of an experience that more people can relate to. For this reason, I’ve written a few friends about potentially using their written work, our text messages and even interview style written work and portraits to widen the scope of this