PerezNashely_Week3Analysis

Throughout Enwezor reading I felt as if he was speaking to me directly. I am responding to when he describes that he is more than just an artist and his artwork is more than just art. It is a story, it is his culture and it is him doing more than just him letting your mind run free. Enwezor wants to make sure that others understand his work on a deeper level. He mentions in the beginning that he feels like he is not doing enough and that spoke to me because in college, especially those who are the first to graduate from college in the family, feel as if they aren't doing enough for their family. There's always a way to better yourself but with everything that we do we are not satisfied with just being “good enough”.

I decided to write my story through a poem. At the beginning of the poem you will notice that I have some form of routine going on but you don't know what exactly it is that I am talking about. I also choose a poem because just like Enwezor paintings the first thing you do is look over it and try to understand it before fully thinking about the actual story. This relates to my hair, the topic in the poem, and how people only see it but don't know the story behind it. No one ever questions it because it is something that has been attached to me since I was young. When looking at a painting people usually just look at the colors and shapes but I’m pretty sure the painter saw more than just that and by the end of the poem you see me branching out of what people define as me because I am more than just my hair.

I choose to speak about my hair because it is what people usually see before my face. I feel like my hair is what makes me stand out to others. The main limitation about this piece is that it doesn't say the word “hair” but it allows others to become more curious about what I am referring to. This is like Enwezor paintings. Although his work stands out and is telling a story, from my perspective I still want to know more and hopefully by the end of the poem people question the story behind my hair and know that I am more than just it.

In the beginning of the poem, I want people to feel as if they are exercising or running out of breath because this is what it feels like to untangle my hair. Many people are curious to know the process on how I manage it and this is pretty much how it goes.

Through this response I learned that no matter what I do in life I am always going to want to do more. Like Enwezor, I want others to understand my story, I want to be different than those around me but be known for that difference. I learned that when we set goals and reach them we are still going to want to be better. Bettering yourself is a never ending lifelong process