Amelia Cruz

KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE

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KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

HEIGHT: 12 inches WIDTH: 16.5 inches MATERIALS: Cardboard, map, graphite, nails, red thread, and acrylic paint.

PROCESS: Pasted a map on cardboard, ripped some material, intervened with pencil/paint and nailed red threat.

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

HEIGHT: 11.2 inches WIDTH: 8 inches MATERIALS: Notebook grid paper, pink ink pen, and cutter.

PROCESS: I drew mathematical graphs and expressions. After, with a cutter, I took out some of the squares.

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

HEIGHT: 19.7 inches WIDTH: 13.8 inches MATERIALS:Linoleum plates, one for each color, ink of multiple colors, linoleum cutter, and cotton paper.

PROCESS: I carved 4 different linoleum plates, tested color combinations, and printed one by one on paper.

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KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

HEIGHT: 7.6 inches WIDTH: 7.6 inches MATERIALS: Wood surface, paper, pink pen, and graphite.

PROCESS: Glued cubes from previous work, drew an old man on top with a pencil.

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

HEIGHT: 6 inches WIDTH: 8.5 inches MATERIALS: Cardboard for a mold, plaster, powdered milk, and glue.

PROCESS: Made a mold for the plaster plate, made a stencil of some bones, added glue, placed milk on top.

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KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

HEIGHT: 36 inches WIDTH: 48 inches MATERIALS: Wood base, white paint, prints gesso, and sandpaper.

PROCESS: Grabbed announcements from street walls, pasted them on wood, added gesso and painted on top.

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

HEIGHT: 12 inches WIDTH: 8.2 inches MATERIALS: Gesso, graphite, and acrylic on board.

PROCESS: I covered a wooden board with gesso, sanded it, and then drew with graphite.

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

HEIGHT: 5.5 inches WIDTH: 4.4 inches MATERIALS: Paper, colored pencils, and graphite

PROCESS: Drew with pencil a base of an image, colored by layers, one on top of the other.

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

HEIGHT: 9.6 inches WIDTH: 13.1 inches MATERIALS: Cardboard, white paint, oil pastels, compressed charcoal, yellow paint, tape, and graphite.

PROCESS: Marked an area, used oil pastels and paint for the base, drew an image, added details with charcoal.

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

HEIGHT: 3.5 inches WIDTH: 5.1 inches MATERIALS: Acrylic paint, handmade papyrus paper, and graphite.

PROCESS: I drew a donkey on handmade papyrus paper and then painted it on top with acrylic.

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

HEIGHT: 9.6 inches WIDTH: 9.6 inches MATERIALS: Canvas, oil paints, spatulas, and print announcement from the street.

PROCESS: Added oil paint on the surface, blended with spatulas, placed the print, added more paint for detail.

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

HEIGHT: 39.3 inches WIDTH: 27.6 inches MATERIALS: Vine charcoal, compressed charcoal, and eraser on paper.

PROCESS: Drew the image, used an eraser and charcoal to draw and create textures, lights, and details.

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KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

HEIGHT: 5.6 inches WIDTH: 8.5 inches MATERIALS: Rusted metal plate and acrylic paint.

PROCESS: I drew an old native Colombian on a rusted plate, and then I painted it on top with acrylic paints.

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KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

HEIGHT: 10 inches WIDTH: 7 inches MATERIALS: Glass, prints, solvents, needles, and sandpaper.

PROCESS: I used bills to make a transfer on glass, then I used solvents, needles and sandpaper to intervene.

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

HEIGHT: 39.4 inches WIDTH: 39.4 inches MATERIALS: Canvas, acrylic paints, paint brushes, and oil pastels.

PROCESS: Drew library codes with oil pastels, used paint on both negative and positive areas.

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

KNOWLEDGE PORTAFOLIO

HEIGHT: 39.4 inches WIDTH: 39.4 inches MATERIALS: Canvas, acrylic paints, paint brushes, and oil pastels.

PROCESS: Drew library codes with oil pastels, used paint on both negative and positive areas.

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REFLECTION:

Knowledge. Human incomprehensible aptitude, even so, testable. Knowing is subjective because I know I know, but how do I know that what I know is true, or it is true to what others know. So, how do we know that we know? In a beginning, I looked for different answers to my questions. In the search, I found a sole aspect that has one answer, a math equation (IMG 2). I made some further research, investigated media and its impact on comprehension (IMG 6), and at the same time discovered the art from Rauschenberg, Roda, Warhol, and Óscar Muñoz. As I gathered information I noticed the level of complexity of my theme, covering from basic knowledge (IMG 1, 3, 12) like for instance going to the bathroom, following a map, drink milk to avoid your bones to break (IMG 5); all the way to things like old knowledge, past knowledge (IMG 10,13), and even my own knowledge. I even settled to draw a well-drawn face using my knowledge, of color, light, and composition. In the end, I concluded knowledge is intricate, yet something we live on a constant with. And my question continues. We don't know if what we know is true, but what we do know is that there is no simple truth.

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AMELIA CRUZ