Artist’s Statement on sports injury and belonging

The Task: Write a 500-word Artist’s Statement and an MLA Works Cited page based on the completed collage. The Core Question: Explain how the collage makes meaning on its own and how it deepens the original written essay (please find it also attached on the bottom of the separate word document). Visual Analysis: Discuss the “productive juxtapositions”explain why specific images and text quotes were placed next to each other (e.g., placing a quote about social pressure over an intimidating team photo) and what emotional effect that creates. I have 6 pictures, mysels, everyone looking at me, wrinkled paper feeling on the top which resonates with the emergency room wrinkled paper, emergency room sign, astigmatism view cars, brain MR visual. Please referance all of them also the quotes I choose please find them below Three Excerpts from Your Own Essay ‘Why did I refuse to sit out?’ The truth was, I was terrified of losing my place with the older boys. We went straight to the emergency room. I sat on the bed waiting for the doctor to explain to me why the world was still spinning. My mind was still on those blurry minutes of the practice, my memory felt less like reality but more like an imaginary, strange, like a dream. Two Excerpts from Authors You Already Engaged 4. Tadhg Coakley: When I was part of a team, I had a purpose, I was useful, I was valued. I belonged there and I knew I belonged there. 5. Seamus Heaney: …like a dream heaviness. Two Excerpts from a New Course Author 6. Roland Barthes: By its very power, this sport sustains a permanent threat of illegality: the game constantly risks being faster than consciousness and overwhelming it. 7. Roland Barthes: This scandal occurs when men collapse the slender barrier separating the two combats: that of sport, that of life.