Inclusion
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At first, I wasn't sure how I wanted to depict the theme of including everyone with or without a disability. A lot of people had people with disabilities playing or interacting with each other which seemed too vague to me. I decided that I would add a quote from George H. W. Bush when he spoke at the signing of the Americans with disabilities act. With the quote, I would add a picture of him "saying" it. One reason I choose to do this was that it was something they posted on there website when talking about inclusion. Two, George H. W. Bush had just passed away in the past month or two, and he was a key leader in the fight for equality among the disabled community, as well as the man who made their dream come true. With that as the underlying plan, I figured out I would add children with disabilities in the foreground. The kids would be happy and represent different disabilities. I picked kids instead of grownups because people tend to connect to children with more emotions than they might with other adults. I used sharpies, alcohol based markers, pen, and watercolor paper. I wanted to play around with contour lines and selective coloring in the piece as to not overload it with too many details. I did all the skin in gray tones so that I could go back and add selective coloring to areas that either related to their disability or to their clothing. Towards the end, the piece got much more colorful than I wanted but I had to fill white space and balance the colors. I struggled when I colored in the red sweatshirt and then colored in the green shirt leaving little negative space. Starting from the left the boy in the wheelchair represents an umbrella of disabilities like cerebral palsy or paralysis. The next boy in the red sweatshirt represents behavioral disabilities like autism, show through the lack of eye contact. The boy in the green represents the visually impaired with his glasses that are supposed to look thicker than normal. The blue boy shows the deaf or hard of hearing community with his hearing aides. Lastly, the girl in yellow represents down syndrome or other diseases related to mutated or damaged DNA. I put each of the kids in a different color so that I could give G. Bush a rainbow collar to create the idea that he both includes all and helps make others more inclusive.
At first, I wasn't sure how I wanted to depict the theme of including everyone with or without a disability. A lot of people had people with disabilities playing or interacting with each other which seemed too vague to me. I decided that I would add a quote from George H. W. Bush when he spoke at the signing of the Americans with disabilities act. With the quote, I would add a picture of him "saying" it. One reason I choose to do this was that it was something they posted on there website when talking about inclusion. Two, George H. W. Bush had just passed away in the past month or two, and he was a key leader in the fight for equality among the disabled community, as well as the man who made their dream come true. With that as the underlying plan, I figured out I would add children with disabilities in the foreground. The kids would be happy and represent different disabilities. I picked kids instead of grownups because people tend to connect to children with more emotions than they might with other adults. I used sharpies, alcohol based markers, pen, and watercolor paper. I wanted to play around with contour lines and selective coloring in the piece as to not overload it with too many details. I did all the skin in gray tones so that I could go back and add selective coloring to areas that either related to their disability or to their clothing. Towards the end, the piece got much more colorful than I wanted but I had to fill white space and balance the colors. I struggled when I colored in the red sweatshirt and then colored in the green shirt leaving little negative space. Starting from the left the boy in the wheelchair represents an umbrella of disabilities like cerebral palsy or paralysis. The next boy in the red sweatshirt represents behavioral disabilities like autism, show through the lack of eye contact. The boy in the green represents the visually impaired with his glasses that are supposed to look thicker than normal. The blue boy shows the deaf or hard of hearing community with his hearing aides. Lastly, the girl in yellow represents down syndrome or other diseases related to mutated or damaged DNA. I put each of the kids in a different color so that I could give G. Bush a rainbow collar to create the idea that he both includes all and helps make others more inclusive.