Duncan P., Seven Principles for Visual Culture Education

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• Please recall one of your past research/essays/artworks (it can be the research you shared above).

One past artwork that stood out to me as combining quite a few different elements to communicate a cohesive message, was a nature journal that I created for my Art in the Environment course last semester. This journal was my final project and acted as a collection of bits and pieces of our lessons and trips throughout the semester on wonder in nature, the Anthropocene, fire, and sustainability. I used a stream of consciousness sort of approach for the journal and wanted it to incorporate some of my writing, drawing, photography, and collage to capture the emotions felt when learning more about art in the environment that semester.

• Did you apply any of the principles that Duncum mentions in the article? Which one? Please briefly state how this or those principles you are applied in the research/essays/artworks.

In my journal, I used the ideology that humans don't use as much caution in their environmental use as they should. However, I also wanted to emphasize the idea that there is hope for change in action if we take a stand and alter our practices to be in the best interest of our surroundings we can make a lasting impact. I also used representation images meaning to show our close partnership with nature and to display that everything we do as humans also can affect the environment as well. In the below artwork I used an image of a woman enjoying a beer in a stand-alone bathtub after the destruction of a tropical storm to signify a deeper meaning of our nonchalance to the damage of the environment around us. I also used pieces of paper colored with watercolor in neutral tones to show how we can start to put the pieces back together but how it will take intentional effort.