DAY 2

It's our second day in Art 220, Concept Development, with Jimmy Moss. I understand that it took me a while to post this blog about Wednesday’s class, I’m still trying to get used to the idea of writing about my day and things that I did during class. It might take me a while to get comfortable with writing on my blog, do bare with me. The topic of discussion was Visual Literacy. What is Visual Literacy? I tried defining the term with the obvious meaning of the words, to me Visual Literacy means being able to read visuals, being able to interpret what one sees through an image.

The lecture continued with Jimmy showing us, the class, some slides to help us understand what Visual Literacy really meant and practice our skills. The first image Jimmy showed was a black and white photograph, he didn't give us any information on the photograph and all that he wanted us to do was to describe to him all the details that we saw. It was so difficult to do that because I would interpret the image, I would try to describe what was happening in the moment the photograph captured instead of the actual details/facts that I saw in the picture. What I saw was three people, the two people on the left had white coats with jewelry around the neck, wrist and fingers, they had smiles on their faces. The figure on the right had a dark coat, the opposite of what the other two figures had, it came across as a "haves and have nots". It's weird, looking back I can tell you more things about what the figure did not have instead of what it did have.

As we moved on with the lecture Jimmy showed us other images, each image was different, each image evoked different emotions. One image that I found intriguing was the one he showed of Jesus on the cross with a thought bubble that said "BRB", which means “be right back”. I found it to be very enlightening, funny and clever. I saw as someone trying to tell the story of Jesus Christ for the people of today. I laughed at it while I'm sure others found it to be blasphemous, actually the image is blasphemous. According to the bible that's what Jesus Christ did, he died on the cross and then came back.