Tracey Tawhiao Subversion AS 90913 v4 internal assessment 4 credits - Literacy - (Blog Post 3)

 Subversion through reconciling?

Sofia Minson- listen, read the transcript and/or closed captions, take notes, link the video.

- Sofia Minson hopes the viewers will experience the ' qualities' of our nature reflecting back to us' through her exhibit.

- Sofia Minson like to honour the ancestors by naming her artwork after the ancestors and mythological deities from Maori culture.

- Her artwork is mostly Maori culture-inspired and link it to other culture.

- The portraits of each woman is not real or inspired by a real person, but it's influenced by deities from different cultures around the world.

Locate one artwork - Quick thumbnail label everything.

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Describe the Artwork:

This artwork shows a Maori paddle (waka) with very detailed patterns and symbols. It also has a gloomy weather background with a small amount of light from the sun. From my perspective, the background of the paddle, the dark clouds somehow look like a wave.  

Does Minson's work show subversion? If so how? If not, why?

This artwork of Sofia Minson shows subversion as it has meaning behind the work. For example, this artwork is reminding and bringing out the idea that without the Maori ancestor, travelling through the Pacific, they won't be here in New Zealand. Since according to the description of the artwork, this artwork is about honouring and remembering our ancestors who navigated throughout the Pacific. It also says that the three waka represent our ancestors who survived and face the hurdles in their life, just like how they handle the waves in the ocean when they were sailing. 

How does she use what exists already to inform her ideas?

Minson uses a massive range of ideas and put them in her own understanding. She didn't just use one culture in her artwork but she combined all other culture such as; Maori, Polynesian, Asian, Egyptian and other cultures. She uses the other culture to find the similarity from her Maori culture.  

                                                                                                                                                                   

What difference can you list between Minson and Tracey's work?

- Tracey used diverse vivid and polychromatic colours, unlike Minson she used monochrome colours and if she would add colour, it's going to be dark and bold. 

- Tracey's pieces are done in the newspaper while Minson's works are done on canvas. 

- Tracey includes text on her artwork, Minson doesn't.

- Tracey's artworks are mostly Maori patterns, and Sofia's artworks are diverse-cultured. 

Week 7: Reflection in ESOL

In ESOL, we have been reading the second book of Gary Paulsen called The River. These past few weeks that we have been reading, I found the story very interesting as it's about a journey of a boy trying to survive in the woods. As in the second book, three men asked Brian if he could recreate what happened to him in the first book (Hatchet). However, this time he is not the only one who needs to survive in the woods, he is trying to get through in wildness together with a psychiatrist named Dereck. Dereck would be the one who will write what they're or what Brian is doing in the woods that enables him to survive. But little did Brian know after a smooth week of spending in the woods, a disaster strike. A bolt of lightning hit their shelter that was made by Dereck and himself.

So far, I like the flow of the book. What I like about the story is because somehow the book is based on a true event. The book conveyed a message on how to make fire just by using a knife and flint. It also tells what people need to do in case they are in the same situation as Brian and Dereck. Another purpose of the book was to teach people who read the book in case they got in the same position as Brian and Dereck. Just like I said, the story can educate the audience as I learned that even though people are in a state of coma, their body system is still excreting.

EAGLES: Desperado

In ESOL, we have created a scenario that shows a desperate person. In our scene, there is a desperate person and the reason he is desperate was for his family. Since he needs to do something for his family, he needs to commit a crime to be.

We've also listened to a song called 'Desperado' by The EAGLES. For me, the song is about a desperate person on a run. The person in the song is telling himself to stop being a reckless person as nothing good will happen if he's desperate. It also says in the song that you can never feel the freedom even though he is on the run and walking freely without people noticing and he said it feels like he is in prison even though he is free.

Wananga Reflection

This week at school I have done many things. Such as I have studied after school for all of my subjects which I rarely do. This week I have also done and started some assessment for some of my subjects. On Wednesday morning, it was the first day of our internal Math assessment and it was nerve-wracking and my hands were too cold and my mind was blank and nothing was coming into my brain. Fortunately, on Thursday, Mrs Buenaventura gives us a chance to continue the assessment we started on Wednesday. The internals Math assessment was worth four credits.  Today I have done an end of chapter review test in Science and I think I didn't do well as I didn't get to study yesterday because I was too tired to understand what I am reading. The only internal assessment I am worried about is the creative writing for English. I'm kinda struggling as I sometimes run out of ideas to write but I know I can finish it.

 

The reason why I am so tired yesterday was that the school held an Athletics event. Yesterday's Athletic Day was fun and the Riroriro house won the event. There are three houses; Mohua, Riroriro and Tieke and I am in Mohua. I was wearing yellow since that is my Kahui colour. The event I did was high jump, long jump, shot-put and 60m sprint. 

Blog Post 2 -Tracey Tawhiao Subversion AS 90913 v4 internal assessment 4 credits - Literacy

1. Wide reading approach: Subversion as a compositional framework. Tracey Tawhiao- Draw a thumbnail sketch and label everything - one Artwork

2. Record: What can you categorise the objects she uses as and why?

Tracey Tahwiao uses a triangle(maunga), fish, a double koru, a shaded line, a rectangle with rounded ends and a rectangle inside and South Canterbury cave art. 

- Maunga/ triangle is used to represent the mountains.

- Fish is used to represent

- Double koru- means that two lives growing together.

- Rectangle with rounded ends and a rectangle inside- I think it represents that two race is living in the same place. In this case,  the outside rectangle represents the pakeha while the inside rectangle represents the Maori.

Triangle - represent the 2 race

- South Canterbury cave art- it represents the Maori culture and the cave was used as their shelter.

The reason why she did this was to show how the Maori people lose their land after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. The rectangles represent the lands that were confiscated from them. The triangles that are shaded and the triangles with lines represent the separation of the 2 ethnic groups living in the same community or nation. Maunga and fish represent the decrease of the economy due to government purchases and outright confiscation.

3. Record: Talk about space in his word-what do you notice?

She separates her work using grids. She also left some spaces to show the text from the newspaper and to add more meaning to her painting. 

4. Record: Talk about colour in his work- what can you describe?

The colour that she uses in this painting is monochromatic green, blue and as well as grey.