Mí nombre es Padre McEnroe y yo vivo en Santiago, Chile. Yo soy el director y el sacerdote en un colegio prestigioso se le llama San Patrick. Yo soy con la clase obrera, de pocos recursos y me considero algo igualitario.Yo quiero que personas tienen mentes abiertas. Todos de los personas merecen a tiene los oportunidades mismas. Entonces, yo intento aprendo esta idea a mís estudiantes.

Yo creo que los estudiantes que debe experimentar cosas que se ayudarán en sus vidas. Es importante los estudiantes que estén preparados para sus vidas. Yo quiero ayuda los estudiantes para experiencias difícil. Yo quiero ellos pienso para los mismos, y tomar sus propias decisiones. Los graduados de San Patrick que debe ser inteligente, creativo y justo. Sí fuera la verdad por todos de mis estudiantes, que he hecho mí trabajo.

Esta pintura se llama “Guernica” por Pablo Picasso. Es una pintura muy famoso. Esta pintura contiene muchos cosas differentes. Yo veo una bombilla, una vaca, un caballo, herradura, personas desfiguradas, una espada, un avé, un bebé muerto, una candela, una ventana, una puerta y fuego. Los colores en la pintura son apagados y oscuro. Yo veo negro y muchas matices de gris. Cualquier otras colores son muy apagado para que sean similares a una matice de gris.

Las cosas en la pintura y los colores le da un tono muy serioso y siniestro a la pintura. Los colores no muestran mas detalle a la pintura. Esta hace que sea más misterioso y un poco miedo porque que esta en la oscuridad es desconocido. Es similar que comó chicos son miedo a la oscuridad en la noche. Nosotros son miedo a la desconocido.

Yo recuerdo cuando General Augusto Pinochet derroca el gobierno de Salvador Allende. Fue una tiempo con mucho tensión entre la clase alta, la clase obrera y la clase medio, porque esta cpn mucho tensión entre los izquierdistas y los momios. Todos de la gente fue en conflicto. Hubo muchos manifestaciones en las calles por los comunistas y los socialistas. Todos de las personas tienen problemas con la presidencia. Lo que fueron manifestaciones inofensivos se convirtió a una guerra entre los clases en los calles. Fue muy ridiculo y peligrosas para todos.

La tensión siguió creciendo hasta que General Pinochet toma poder.  Cuando el toma poder, el gobierno fue muy violencia. La situación fue muy miedo por todos de los clases. Yo recuerdo cuando los soldados toman poder en mi colegio. Yo no tenía poder. Yo era un figura de proa hasta que los soldados descubiertan que yo no cruzarse de brazos y aceptaria. Se hicieron muy pujantes. Yo sentía peno por los niños. Sé que tenían miedo.

Los ojectos en la pinura son muy simbólica. Yo creo que la bombillo representa los bombas y el explosión de la tensión entre la gente. Las personas desfiguradas y el bebé muerto representa la repercusión de los acciones de el gobierno. El fuego representa esta tambíen y además, los piensos intensos de las personas. El fuego es muy miedo y simboliza gravedad de la situación. Pero todos de los ojectos en la pintura tiene una significado grave. El avé representa escape y esperanza, y la herradura representa esto también.

La significado de la pintura es muy oscura pero, si usted mira más cerca, hay siempre tiene esperanza. Me gusta la pintura mucho y el pintor parece muy intelligente y realista. No me gusta la historia en la pintura, pero me gusta la oculto significado de esperanza. La significado de la pintura es muy oscura pero, si usted mira más cerca, hay siempre tiene esperanza. Esto es una mensaje yo siempre trato de recordar y confiar.

Mary Altamuro

When we think of the mentally handicapped or those with mental disorders, we instantly feel pity.  We usually do not stop to wonder why or how a person came to be stricken with the disability or disorder that afflicts them.   I find myself curious about why these disorders still exist generation after generation even after all the scientific effort at uncovering the causes and possible cures.  A great deal of time and attention has been spent on how these disorders came to exist and what might make them worse and how to make them better, but there is still so much we still need to learn.  Thankfully, scientists have given us a great deal of information that can be very beneficial in understanding, treating and hopefully someday curing or preventing mental and emotional issues. 

Recently, studies have shown that a genetic predisposition may be hidden in people that makes them prone to certain characteristics that when provoked, can create emotional or mental conditions.  This predisposition, in conjunction with a triggering event or simply by the quality in that person’s environment and upbringing can cause these characteristics to become problematic and spark a mental or emotional abnormality. This peculiar phenomenon is called the diathesis-stress model.

According to this theory, when provoked, a characteristic may go into overdrive, causing a person to have a legitimately diagnosable illness. Environmental stimuli that may cause such a thing to happen are social issues or trauma that may have occurred at a young age.

 One of the most common problems that can cause such a change in people would have to do with their parents. If a young person does not receive the right kind of attention as they are maturing, it can cause emotional and social problems for them later in life.  An overbearing or judgmental parental figure can cause a person to have low self-esteem, which could then inflict disorders such as narcissistic personality disorder, social anxiety disorder or even depression.   Parents who get divorced have also been shown to cause obsessive-compulsive disorder in as children of divorced parents tend to feel they have a loss of control in their lives and obsessive-compulsive disorder is a disorder driven by a person’s overwhelming need and drive for control. 

These disorders reveal themselves when people who are predisposed for the characteristics are triggered by an emotional or social stress. This ignites an inner need to balance themselves out, mentally. Sadly, they often emotionally overcompensate; leaving them worse off then they were in the beginning.

I am inspired by details.  Once I have arrived at a concept of what I will create, I am from the outset of the creation of a piece, highly intuned to the precise placement of each element in that piece. Deciding how each color relates to the other, complements the other and bounces off one another is taken into consideration along with the strategic placement of the items. One of my favorite things to do is take an object, pull it out of its element, and give it a new perspective. Then, the purpose of the object is completely different. It may or may not be useful, but it will always evoke some type of emotion.

I like to use natural elements, and shape and twist them into something that they were not intended for. I feel that the piece will emit a more honest vibe, if it was created from something that people may see everyday, but never truly appreciate. With this approach, it is sometimes hard to envision how the final product will turn out, but I don't really mind. I feel that the piece will always turn out to be how it was meant to. I'm just helping it complete its aesthetic purpose. I see myself as an aide in helping people recognize the true potential and beauty in commonplace objects.

The process of creating a piece, rather than the actual final product is what is most important to me. For instance, if painting, I am more likely to slowly and carefully paint each color that butts up against another than paint one color over top of the other. I would much rather go through the process of creating a close detail-oriented piece of work, than just have the overall piece be quick, easy and generally aesthetically pleasing. And although not intended, the result of such close detail work is that when someone looks at a piece, it may seem basic at first, but on closer inspection the details begin to show themselves. Someone would have to really be paying attention, in order to truly appreciate my work.

Bottle Cap Poster

An artist named Aurora Robson has been creating pieces from plastic bottle caps for some time now. We learned about her in class and about why and how she creates these pieces. Most of them are reflective of images from nightmares that she used to have. Not coincidentally, since they are made from plastic bottle caps, (which can not be recycled) they share a common element with her audience, as we all share in the nightmare of how we are destroying the Earth with our nonchalant overuse of plastic. Our class was planning to visit Aurora and her new exhibit, and we wanted to be helpful to her cause. So, for our first project we were to create a poster informing people that the art room would be collecting bottle caps.