Fin de L'artiste
One random Saturday night last week my friend Alex and I got together and were drinking wine as we tend to do. Having nothing to do we decided to play around and take some photographs. I happen to had...
View ArticleFIU Style Sightings
It was a surprisingly busy past few days and that combined with rain every afternoon I wasn't able to get too many street style photos so this week is a collection of photos from the past few weeks. I...
View ArticleArtistic Collaboration {Behind the Scenes}
Before jumping into this post today you may notice a complete re-design to the blog. As I mentioned awhile back it was time for me to accept the white background as black simply wasn't doing my photos...
View ArticleConceptual Artists
As I was sitting in my History of Photography class the other day my professor brought up the topic of artists who use the camera but do not consider themselves to be photographers; rather they are...
View ArticleIn Love With A Bird
I was originally going to give this post a much heavier emotional context and continue my discussion on conceptual art in terms of turning poetry into images but it's Wednesday and we all need a little...
View ArticleWaves of Nostalgia
I was asked the other day by a friend if I ever found myself having moments where it feels as though a wave of nostalgia washes over me. I was surprised to be asked that because I guess I never...
View ArticleFIU Style Sightings
Ali Azgin "I plan my outfits."Mya Saez-Flores "It was just kind of what I saw."Marlon Alarm "Completely haphazard."Miosoti Pichardo "I was wearing something completely different and this was more...
View ArticleBirthday Countdown
A sense of melancholy and remembrance of things past seem to be permeating me these past few weeks. Melancholy isn't always such a negative thing, it can be quite enjoyable at times especially when it...
View ArticleAnother Year Remembered
As mentioned yesterday it's a week til I am another year older and like most people I'm sure I consider my birthday to be the beginning of a new year more so than January 1st. With that said this post...
View ArticleWhat You Ache For
As I move forward with another year I would like to keep this quote in mind that I came across recently. It doesn't interest me what you do for a living,I want to know what you ache for.I want to know...
View ArticleSprite
A few weeks ago I took some photos with a friend for school and afterwards she told me that the feedback she got consisted of a lot of people saying that I looked like a fairy or sprite. This is not...
View ArticleScientific Art
There is a specific type of art out there that's sole purpose is to gain a better scientific understanding of our ourselves and our environment. I am currently in the process of writing my art history...
View ArticleWildflower
A few weekend's ago I was asked by a friend from school to be her model for a day of shooting for her photo classes. I of course obliged because her work is absolutely gorgeous and I've been dying for...
View ArticleGone Shopping
This doesn't happen often but when it does it can be dangerous. Earlier last week my friend asked me to accompany her to the mall so she could buy some much needed basic items. I myself being the type...
View ArticleFIU Style Sightings
Juan Neira Fine Art/Art History "I wanted to be happy."Cierra Campbell Anthropology "I had on my track clothes before so I changed into this to be more comfortable."Cailen Caplan...
View ArticleA Reality Of My Own
"A Nirvana where there is no more personality and hence no conflict. It is the expression of a man's wish to triumph over reality, over becoming. The artist's dream of the impossible, the miraculous,...
View ArticleAn Interview With Jacked Fashion
When you think of Miami Alaska is usually not the first thing to come to mind. The same goes for when you think of Alaska Miami would probably not be the first thing to come to mind. Yet Alaska...
View ArticleFIU Style Sightings: Interview
Miami is not the type of city that you would expect to find someone walking around in full Japanese fashion attire so when I met freshman art major Thais Torquez I immediately became intrigued. I had...
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Amada Garcia "I just got this skirt for sale."Gabriel Gomez "I cut my hair on Saturday for this whole renewal of my persona and I felt like this shirt represented what I'm going for. It makes me...
View ArticlePLAY
When I first started my art classes in college I came in with this notion stuck in my head that I had to already have everything figured out when it came to what I wanted to say through my art. I...
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