Mirror Phone Photography

Playing around with some filters on my phone. Found a mirror filter. Gives a pretty interesting look. :)

Phone Photography

More Phone Photography :)

Phone Photography

Took some pictures with my phone, after having the positive influence of Don Werthmann "Quatrain" series. :)

Backyard Astronomy

Some images I took for my observation log for backyard astronomy class at WCC.

Pieces inspied by Organizations

  Here are some of my assignments for my Digital Media Class at EMU. I focus most of my work on Organizations that inspire me. One of my images I did to support the Save the Music organization. In this piece, I wanted to show the importance of music, showing how music lives inside the artist. The other Organization was to was the fight to end Verbal Abuse, for this image I wanted capture the feeling one gets when one is verbally attacked.  I made this a self-portrait to show my struggles that I had growing up in a not "very" diverse area. This piece was very difficult for me because it was so personal, showing all of the negative and denigrating words I have been called over the years was not easy. Through this experiences I learned that it is important to treat everyone with respect, care and love to create a positive future for yourself and others. Thou these negative words stained my heart, I feel that it made me a better person. I try to find positive messages in my negative experiences. Through giving positivity to other comes a positive future.

First Painting in 3 years

Finally Got Time to paint.

Building a Website

Making a website for my class at EMU using Dreamweaver was very difficult, more difficult than I thought it was going to be. In this website I focused the attention on artists who have touched my life and inspired me to do what I love. Through this assignment I learned to honor the artists that give me the  inspiration to keep going through the struggles of being an artist. I also learned that through hard work and passion comes great achievement.  Here is my Inspirational Artists website. http://people.emich.edu/agivens3/index.html