The Resilience

For this unit P'arts Of History I created a lino-cut drawing and made clay walls around my lino-cut and poured cement over my lino-cut drawing. The reason for creating a drawing and making this was because we wanted to see what in Chicago shows resilience. I found a symbol that meant change, life's dynamics for what I think shows resilience to Chicago. I drew this symbol because of the gun violence and shootings happening in every neighborhood in the City. I think that we can all stop the violence and keep


The main purpose of making this drawing was to create, a symbol that shows resilience to Chicago.
The guiding question is "How may you visualize Chicago's resilience today?"

How I identified this guiding question was by drawing a unique symbol to show others how I visualize my Chicago, which means change, Life's dynamics. The causes and effects would be that Chicago does have a lot of bad and good things about it. There is a lot of things that shows resilience to us about Chicago and that's a cause and effect about Chicago. A way that Chicago shows resilience is the new artwork that is being placed in many neighborhoods to show their artwork. Something that can make things better than what they were like when the Chicago fire happened in 1871 by building better buildings for people to use. What Chicago can do to show resilience is help violence, teenagers get good education expand the learning for many people and keep them from joining gangs and using drugs and just violence.

The Skyline View

In this course "P'art Of History" my class and I are learning about the history of Chicago and who claims Chicago. Today Chicago tells us about the discoveries that happened back in the early years in "Chigagou". Chigagou the "wild garlic place" where there was lots of Native Americans. This image shows how I see Chicago today from my perspective.

Jamilet Rodriguez

From My Perspective

Lino cut and linoleum cutter

6"x6"

July, 3rd 2014

The main purpose of my art piece is to tell my story about who claims Chicago from my visual that I drew. My guiding question was who lays claim in your Chicago?

My guiding question was who lays claim to your Chicago and I answered by saying that everyone claims Chicago, we all have something part of Chicago that lays claim. Chicago is very huge and many people live here and one and each person takes a stand to make something happen in there city of Chicago. Its whether try to stop the violence in neighborhoods, keep children safe and busy away from problems, teach children in their early ages  what’s right from wrong, and just everything that isn't going to get you anywhere in life.

A experience that I have had with Chicago, would be walking with my class to Lincoln Park to see the different statues that were settled there back in the early years. In 1673 Marquette and Juliet were the first Europeans that saw Chicago. In 1779 Du Sable was the first settler that settled in Chigagou with the Native Americans, he was known as a traveler and a trader, pretty wealthy, and who drank freely.

My art piece is a visual of how I see Chicago myself, its a view from right from wrong of the skyline. Neoclassical Art is different types of ways to create/draw a drawing or building a sculpture and these types of ways are emotionless, clean lines, symmetrical, heroic figures, and simple. How I created my art piece was drawing a visual for my story/poem and putting the image on a lino cut tile used with carving tools ( Linoleum cutter ). What I will do with my carving is when I am fully finish put cement over the lino cut tile that I put my drawing and will come out on the cement.