Hockney Style Joiners

David Hockney is a famous artist and photographer that has become well-known for his interesting and unique photomontages. A photomontage are several different photos arranged to create a new picture or abstract art. Hockney's photomontages are different than the ones we are making. In some ways, like they are taken at different times of the day (as seen in Hockney's image to the right). You can see that a part of the sky was taken at night. Or in the picture in the top-left corner, some of the clouds around the mountain are dark and stormy, and others are white and puffy. Also, some of Hockney's photomontages aren't close to the original object. The subject is seen multiple times and is somewhat spread apart.

My trampoline covered with memories, with my feet and another mysterious pair of feet.

Images can be powerful things. They can make you feel things. They can make you think things. And sometimes, some make you do things, all of these things both positive and negative. An image can send positive messages by using warm, light, and pretty colors and combinations. Or by presenting happy things like sunsets or someone smiling or a wedding and being humans, we have the urge to be happy when others are happy. If an image uses dark, colorless, and bland things, it tend to make people sad or angry. Or by depicting negative things, like funerals or death, humans will feel and think negatively.
My final photomontage is of my trampoline. This trampoline means so much to me. I've had so many great memories on there with all my friends and family. It represents me because I'm always so jumpy and hyper and constantly moving. I do dance 5 days a week and I still always have energy. But behind that, there is a deeper meaning that I want people to notice. It is that you should jump to reach your goal. Don't just stand there- try to jump ahead and reach for your dreams. And most of all... have fun! If you don't enjoy what you are doing, don't do it then. Its your life. You can jump anyway you want. While your up there, do a front flip. Why not? Just do what makes you happy and have fun. Be active... BE YOU!




-My friend Cara sitting under a tree at our school outside of our
 GT classroom.

2016 Aspirations

Happy New Years everyone! It's 2016 and it's time to start thinking of New Years resolutions. Everyone makes New Years resolutions but sometimes they don't complete them like they hoped they would. But, I am hoping to attain at least one of these goals (hopefully all of them). I am constantly tired in the mornings and have a hard time getting up, so one of my goals is to go to bed earlier and get more sleep. Another, resolution I have is to end my 7th grade school year with straight A's on my report card. Its always a good feeling to know that you have improved over the year. As you guys may know, I take dance. I am taking classes four days a week and training to go en pointe (the picture to the right is a dancer who is en pointe). So one of my goals is to get my pointe shoes sometime this year and start getting comfortable with them and possibly start dancing in them. On the topic of dance, even though I take lessons four days a week, I want to go more often and longer. I started ballet only a few months ago, and I am behind everyone of the skills and training level since I started so late. I want to learn more and more so I can get to the same level as all my other dance friends. Lastly, I want to eat healthier. Being a dancer requires a lot of strength and I eat a lot of candy (whoops). So, I want to start getting into shape and stretching more often at home to get more flexible. Anyways, I hope I didn't bore you with that long paragraph.

The most important goal for me to reach this year is to eat healthier. This is because I dance a lot, and if I don't eat healthy, it makes it a lot harder for me to dance. It drags me down in a way, plus I have to get more flexible and eating junk food will not help. Eating healthy is a hard thing for me because I LOVE candy but if I want to be successful in dance and get better, I need to switch a few things up in my daily diet. For example, have one piece of candy every three days instead of everyday. And yes, I am very serious about dance and love it a lot so you are going to be hearing about it very often. Anyways, eating healthier is also extremely important because not only will it help me in dance, but it will help me feel a lot more active and happy. I know, I sound like a crazy person talking about dieting and eating healthy but I'm not a crazy person (well... not completely crazy)! Alrighty- enough of that!

My most important goal is to eat healthier and stretch more, but I can't just snap my fingers and BLAM... I'm eating healthy. It will be a challenge but if I take certain steps, I can do it. First of all, I'd have to tell my family about this goal so that they could help me stay on track. Then, I have to set a limit like eating only one piece of candy or one bowl of ice cream every other day. Then, I will continue getting stricter, by saying like only one piece of candy or one bowl of ice cream a week. But it will take a while. The second part of it (stretching more) will be achieved by me stretching at home and in my free time. I'm pretty flexible but I need to be more flexible to be successful in dance. This one will be easier that eating healthy because I watch a lot of YouTube, so I can do some stretching while I'm watching videos. the hardest part of achieving this goal will probably be to continue doing these thing throughout the entire year. That is why I have to let my friends and family know what I am trying to do because then they can help me and keep motivated.