Badge of Honor
Badge of Honor
Seeing
1. What strikes me with the first picture, the room of the 15 year old replicated by the artist Pepón Osorio, is the Bruce Lee and basketball related pictures in the room, not to mention, the vast (and I mean VAST) amounts of cards on the back-wall. Clearly, even before reading the context, I know this room belonged to a male teen or preteen. The Bruce Lee picture is quite significant as it is quite large and is placed in the middle of the photograph by Osorio. This leads me to believe that, possibly, the teen has a passion for Bruce Lee's martial arts (Jeet Kun Do) or at least follows his movies. What caught my eye next are the basketball related things such as the basketball on the bed and the Scottie Pippen poster on the right. These were the first two things that hit me, yet I realize that the strangest thing to be in a bedroom is the bicycle. Why is there a bicycle in the middle of the room and better yet, why is there a chain lock on the bike when it's clearly in a safe place?! Culturally, I believe this teenager is from an unsafe neighborhood and has to keep a lock to maintain security. This presumption is based solely on the bicycle and my reading of the context. Base simply on the picture, I feel like Osorio's style is strange and very literal. As of yet, I still haven't read into any underlying messages or subtle artistic touch.
2. Osorio's depiction of a teenage boys' bedroom is fairly accurate. Of course, his depiction is generalized as the typical sports loving, anger filled and athletic boy; a common stereotyped gender role that many boys have to live by until they further realize who they are as an individual. It is a huge generalization, yet, often times, accurate. The room that I feel is most fictional is the strange mirrored floor. That is very untypical and strange for a teenage boy or girl to have; in fact, any people to have. What I see more as fact is the sports aspect. One important criteria that distinguishes fantasy to fiction is what is often times a stereotype generally is factual, although, not always.
Seeing
1. What strikes me with the first picture, the room of the 15 year old replicated by the artist Pepón Osorio, is the Bruce Lee and basketball related pictures in the room, not to mention, the vast (and I mean VAST) amounts of cards on the back-wall. Clearly, even before reading the context, I know this room belonged to a male teen or preteen. The Bruce Lee picture is quite significant as it is quite large and is placed in the middle of the photograph by Osorio. This leads me to believe that, possibly, the teen has a passion for Bruce Lee's martial arts (Jeet Kun Do) or at least follows his movies. What caught my eye next are the basketball related things such as the basketball on the bed and the Scottie Pippen poster on the right. These were the first two things that hit me, yet I realize that the strangest thing to be in a bedroom is the bicycle. Why is there a bicycle in the middle of the room and better yet, why is there a chain lock on the bike when it's clearly in a safe place?! Culturally, I believe this teenager is from an unsafe neighborhood and has to keep a lock to maintain security. This presumption is based solely on the bicycle and my reading of the context. Base simply on the picture, I feel like Osorio's style is strange and very literal. As of yet, I still haven't read into any underlying messages or subtle artistic touch.
2. Osorio's depiction of a teenage boys' bedroom is fairly accurate. Of course, his depiction is generalized as the typical sports loving, anger filled and athletic boy; a common stereotyped gender role that many boys have to live by until they further realize who they are as an individual. It is a huge generalization, yet, often times, accurate. The room that I feel is most fictional is the strange mirrored floor. That is very untypical and strange for a teenage boy or girl to have; in fact, any people to have. What I see more as fact is the sports aspect. One important criteria that distinguishes fantasy to fiction is what is often times a stereotype generally is factual, although, not always.
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