Blog 2: Sound Walk; Bushwick,Brooklyn, Evening.

I live in Bushwick. The neighborhood is commonly associated with terms such as up and coming and gentrifying. My area is mainly low ride apartment buildings with the occasional house occupied by a native family here or there. Perhaps the most outstanding thing I noticed in my evening sound walk was how I lived in the intersection of so many different forms of transportation. I live directly under the LaGuardia Airport approach patter so there is a humming of jet engines above at regular intervals. In addition to that there is the jangling sound of the J or M train every ten or so minutes as the line runs parallel to my neighborhood. Theres the obvious roaring of cars as they pass by intersections but theres also the softer rumbling of bicycles and E-bikes commonly used by delivery personnel. In addition on my sound walk I would cross the occasional bodega which always offer an array of sounds. From the sporting event on the TV inside to the two gentleman having a pound conversation in Spanish outside to the sounds of plastic bags being filled with goods. Other sounds I encountered in the “city symphony” of my area include the sounds of dogs barking at skateboarders and children playing around my local laundromat. Some unexpected sounds are  when extremely loud commercial used trucks like sanitation trucks or dump trucks come up really narrow streets making a lot of noise. It certainly creates an uncomfortable amplitude compared to what the general sound of the atmosphere in the neighborhood is. 

Defining a space.

Link to video project!

Artist Statement

With my art I intend to produce media in a style which is instantly understandable and significant but extremely simple. Personally I am a huge fan of things that do not be explained, like an image that just captures every essence of a moment or occurrence in a single frame. I want those thousand words that a picture holds to be loud and clear. I am interested in developing my media through utilising elements of photography and filmmaking but I  really want to branch into the realm of digital media creation.  I intend to make media using a range of mediums. I have never considered myself someone who is capable of producing art through traditional means such as drawing or painting. My handwriting sucks, my sketching sucks and my graffiti sucks too. This is why I feel that media creation and capturing is the way I can best produce art that isn’t corrupted by lack of talent in the traditional sense. 
A stylistic approach I have considered covering is that of spot photography or photojournalism, capturing moments of great emotion or activism that seem as to tell an entire story with minimal material. I have always had in interest in representation of surroundings and capturing moments in real life that I feel need to be saved forever. Mostly I want my art to be a something I myself really like. This may seem like a weirdly selfish or wrong thing to say in an artist statement but there are so many aspects of our lives that we don’t get to have complete say over, rarely do you get to do something completely from scratch. Creating art and media affords you that opportunity and the product of this opportunity should be something that satisfies the creator entirely.