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A Still Life<br />
Cindy Jiang<br />
Grade: 7<br />
School: PS/MS 147, Queens<br />
<strong>Art</strong> Teacher: Cathy Mumford<br />
Torn-magazine collage<br />
STUDENT: I don’t have to think<br />
about how to express myself.<br />
I just do it and when I do, it<br />
shows my talent. Ms. Mumford<br />
has always challenged me to<br />
be “an artist of tomorrow”<br />
and not to be satisfied with<br />
the artist I am at this time. I<br />
now understand that to go on<br />
to any new level in my life,<br />
there will always be challenges<br />
to overcome. My teacher<br />
kept encouraging me until I<br />
finished. I was relieved when<br />
it was completed but more<br />
importantly, I was very proud<br />
of what I’d done because I was<br />
able to imagine and complete<br />
a masterpiece. Sometimes in art,<br />
the process can be long but the<br />
result you will get is worth it.<br />
TEACHER: During <strong>Art</strong> Club, students<br />
were assigned the task of creating<br />
a still life that would incorporate<br />
two techniques they learned in<br />
class and would like to investigate<br />
further. Cindy chose to create a still<br />
life collage using a range of values<br />
to describe volume and form. Her<br />
representation of bottles in a textural<br />
way is novel. Cindy’s perseverance<br />
and attention to detail deserves to be<br />
celebrated, appreciated and shared.<br />
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