Police Brutality Can Change

This project is for my second unit of my art and history class. The purpose of this project was to pick a problem in Chicago and see how we showed resilience. If your problem was not yet solved then we had to dream of a way we want Chicago to come back from this problem. I learned a lot about police brutality from the news and YouTube but I also learned a little bit during my investigation of how to solve this problem. I am most proud of the solution I came up with because I feel that it will work on the cops end and will help the citizens of Chicago live a safer, better life

Title: Stop The Brutality

Materials: Carving tools, Soft cut linoleum, Concrete, Clay, water, Cups,
Size: 6x6
Date of completion: 7/17/14

 

I feel police brutality is ultimately cause by letting power go to your head. The police are given the power to take someone physically harm someone and imprison someone but if we touch them we can get imprisoned for a long time. I feel that it is very unfair that cops get t treat us like dirt for petty reason. So I feel that the cause of police brutality is just cops abusing their power! The effect of the cops doing this is that the build up a certain fear in everyone and now when someone sees the cops they get paranoid of scared and automatically feel that they did something wrong. another effect is that a lot of people get beaten badly or killed by cops because the cops want to be brutal for no reason at all and also some people even get wrongly imprisoned. cops have also made a name for themselves by doing this because now when most people see cops they associate the word "Cops" with the words "a**hole" or "Pigs" because of what they have been doing to ordinary people for many years. I don't believe we have came back from this problem but I hope that one day we can. My dream is that police officers could reach out and talk to us like civil human beings instead of treating us like dirt and not caring about our opinions. I feel that if cops would just listen to what we have to say instead of just shutting us out and making us feel bad about what we have done there will probably be way lees people wrongly imprisoned and a lot less people being a victim of police brutality 

 

 I feel that the piece represents my explanation perfectly because I show two diamond shapes connecting which represent handcuffs and one of the definitions was slavery and law. I did this symbol to represent the cause because I feel that law is a power and slavery is abuse. I did the megaphone to symbolize the fact that we have no voice when the cops talk to us and also that we need more talking and less abuse to people that do wrong. The feather symbol is my way of representing resilience. The description that came with the image was “Truth, justice, morality and balance. When the pharaoh died Maat was lost and the world flung into chaos, only the coronation of a new pharaoh could restore Maat. When I read it I think of the people being the new pharaoh and basically standing up against the government and the cops and stop the brutality because it isn't fair to us but we can do something if we cooperate and talk civilly to the cops even if they treat us like dirt just to show them how much stronger we are

First we had to once again sketch the image and then place it on the linoleum and cut out the image. when we were all done carving we had to take stoneware clay and make a tight box around the piece of linoleum that was at least 3 inches tall. When building the wall we had to first make a base to cover the bottom of the piece and have the clay base be at least 4 cm long on each side so you can bend them upwards to start the walls. When making the walls we had to first take a big chunk of clay and flatten it and then cut it into a square, next we had to cut it into a rectangle and put it on one side and connect it to the part that you folded upwards and continue that step for all four walls. Next you have to spray the entire inside of the box including the clay with non stick spray. next I had to mix the concrete. For the concrete I first  had to add water to a small bowl and then I took a strainer and made sure all the rocks were out of the concrete and then little by little I poured the concrete while also stirring the mix together. Now finally after the mix is thoroughly stirred and smooth I poured the mix in the clay box and smoothed it out so it covers the entire linoleum cut and wait for it to dry

  The Great Chicago Fire

 There were many causes of the Chicago fire but one of the most famous one is Mrs. O'learys cow but another factor is that back then a lot of fires were happening and also the streets and houses were made out of wood and the rooftops of the houses were made out of tar which is highly flammable and they also had pine chips which were also highly flammable and they blew in the wind causing the fire to spread rapidly . The effects were that many people lost their homes and Chicago had burned down to the ground. I feel that Chicago demonstrated resilience because they started to rebuild Chicago with the help of many different places in the world. different countries started to send Chicago money because they had hope in this small city and Chicago started to rebuild very quickly. Buildings were not just going up one at a time but 25 building were popping up at a time. Chicago also decided to build the building up instead to out which made commercial building which also pulled in more money