This project is for my Five Faces Elective course and this is the second Action Project of this course. This unit was all about the Five Faces and how we can identify our strong faces and other peoples faces. Also how we can unlock our faces and make the weaker ones stronger and how we can eventually use them to help us do a service project. I liked the fact that I got to identify my own strong and weak faces. I am proud of the interview I did because I feel that I never really talk to my cousin about graffiti like that and that was a cool thing to do.
In this unit we went deep into studying all of the Five Faces and what each face means. A Seer is someone that visualizes and basically sees things in their mind and then uses what they see to solve problems and use it in real world problems. An Observer is someone that sits back and watches their surroundings and really pays attention to detail. An Alchemist is someone that combines different things and tries to make a solution by putting things together. A Fool is someone that always tries to find weird ways to do things and take average solutions and turns them on their head. They also are the type of people that aren't scared to try weird things even if they might not work. A Sage is someone that likes to take complicated problems and things and make them simple and they are also people that look to history to solve problems.
When I took the Five Faces survey to see what my dominant faces and weak faces are, I scored high in the Fool and Seer category and kind of low in the others according to the test. I actually agree with the Fool and Seer outcome because whenever I'm at home and I have to do something I will always find a “different” way of doing it and also I’m pretty goofy and just like to turn normal things upside down and just make everything more fun. I also agree that I am a Seer because I do visualize everything I do because I draw and do graffiti so I have to visualize what everything is going to look like before it goes down on paper. Another way I see a Seer in me is that whenever I can't think of a character I will stare at a brick wall or other form of textured wall and I will start to see shapes and characters in the texture and its all me just putting those
shapes and visions together to make a character.
For my external part of this project I decided to interview my cousin because I feel that he is very creative because he does graffiti just like me and he draws.Throughout the conversation I talked to him about what he does when he sees graffiti, if he watches graffiti movies, does he study graffiti and just things like that. Basically at the end of the discussion I feel that he is a Seer and a Sage. I feel that he is as Seer because he has to visualize what he is going to do in his head before it goes on paper or a wall. Just like every artist, you have to visualize what it will look like and what color combo will be good or how you will structure a certain thing and I feel that that is what graffiti writers or artists have to do. I also think he is a Sage because a sage is someone that simplifies things and I knew he was one when he said “I like to keep my style simple but still clean.” Another thing a Sage does is look to history for solutions and from past times at his house and past conversations I've noticed that he likes to look up the history of graffiti and also look at other graffiti videos on YouTube.
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| Hoop mixtape, BKJ (2013) |
One person that we studied in class was Albert Einstein. I felt that Albert Einstein is a Sage and a Seer. I think he is a Seer because he had to create the formula E=mc2 and I doubt that the answer just fell in his hand so he really had to visualize how everything was going to work and how he was actually going to make the formula. I also feel that he is a Sage because of one quote that he said which was “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” I feel that this makes him a Sage because he took a very broad, controversial, and uncommon topic and made it simple and actually made it make sense.
And lastly one person that I didn't study or interview is my mom Luisa Johnston. I feel that my Mom is a Seer and a Observer. I feel that she is a Seer because she visualizes how she wants things to look and then somehow makes it happen. My mom is also an artist and she likes to draw from her mind so she has to visualize how everything is going to look when she puts it on paper. I feel that my Mom is also an Observer because she sits back and just watches things unfold and really pays attention to detail and then uses that as a way to get other people to do something and fix the thing that happened. She often notices things that me and my other family members don't and that is why I feel that she could be an Observer.
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| My Mom, BKJ (2014) |
I will use Seer qualities to teach kids art at an after school program and I will visualize what I am going to teach them and how I am going to teach them art step by step. I will use Observer skills to pay attention to each kid’s progress in learning and use it to make special lessons for each kid. I will use Alchemist skills to combine two different forms of art and try to teach them how to make two things work as one and make it an art piece. I will use Fool skills to make the class fun and take the average boring art class and turn it upside down and turn it into a fun class that they could look forward to. I will use Sage skills to make the class simpler because I will be working with kids and I don’t want to make anything too complicated. Also I will teach them about the history of art and maybe the history of graffiti if I get to teach graffiti. Another service project I could do is volunteer at my local park district and basically clean and help out with whatever else they need.
