Intro
Hello
my name is Jose Chavez and I see bullying as an act of terrorism within
humanity. I think that terrorism doesn’t only happen between countries or
nations just as we hear nowadays through television news or radio, but within
our own territory as well. When it comes to violence it isn’t only through
vandalism, robberies, gang related acts or wars where many get killed. Bullying
is a type of violence operating within our society where the lives of many
people are being terrorized through physical and emotional pain. Bullying just
as any other life threatening act of violence is putting people’s lives in
danger. Many individuals that are put down and affected by the menace of
bullying become isolated from the crowd do to often being left out and ignored
by the others around them and with this actions making some kids feel unworthy
or less important than others kids. In some cases of bullying the damage caused
by this issue can result in suicidal reactions.
I
have created this art exhibition on bullying with all the intentions of putting
the word out against bullying. I also want to communicate by it the
significance that this issue is having against people. People need to know
about the effects of bullying on a person’s life not just by hearing about it
but also by visualizing and reading about this matter. Art is a great way to
learn of this social issue because it gives the spectators the opportunity to
think about the problem this issue is causing. The purpose of this project is
also to make comprehend and explain the piece of art they are looking at beyond
what the title or words coming from the image specifically say about it.
The
Eyes
Summary: Amrelshamy
is an artist and filmmaker from Cairo, Egypt. Amrelshamy says he loves to practice
all kinds and styles of art but his passion is in filmmaking. Amrelshamy is
also a producer, cinematographer, a digital artist, cartoonist and clay artist.
According to media he owns his own studio where he works as an artist and
filmmaker. The name if the studio is “Hot Amr Studio”. Amrelshamy created a
piece of art called “The Eyes” which was created with the means to be part of a
Mural Project against bullying.
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The
scenario of the piece contains fog, on the left top corner has brown and orange
branches, trees and cars in the far distance. There is an empty parking lot and
a kid walking by himself through this parking lot. The kid has a backpack
around him and is carrying a lunch bag with him. There is also a school bus parked on the lot.
The sky is looking grayish and right in the center of the image, there are
three gigantic monsters with horns on their heads. Have of their bodies are covered
by the fog but the heads are visible to the kid that is walking towards these
enormous horned monsters.
Analysis: this art piece “The Eyes” defines bullying as
monsters in school waiting for kids to arrive to attack them. The image involving
giant monsters clearly suggests that there can be scary monsters in school
where kids go to learn and play. Kids can become total monsters by how they act
and talk and how approach other kids around them as well. The kid projects
loneliness in school. The piece shows the kid not having anybody caring for his
wellbeing. Another interpretation of the walking alone kid is that there can be
a lack of attention from the kid’s parents and that this will make any kid and
easy prey for anybody. The empty parking lot gives the feeling of nobody being
around to keep the kid company. The whole scenario suggests that some kids
might think there are kids acting up as monsters upon them and this is the way
some kids may feel about school. For some kids school might be scary to go to.
I
chose this art piece on bullying because it truly shows how bullying can affect
people to the point where bullies can be so harmful and scary to others that
they can become like monsters in the minds of the people that the bullies are
picking on. I’ve been researching on bullying and I’ve been learning that
bullying is nothing else but violence happening in the open eyes of many but
ignored and categorized as unimportant. This image totally represents my social
issue because the kid in the image represents many more that are feeling the
same way about school as well. Many of this kids aren’t having fun in school
due to tormenting and oppression by other kids. It is sad to know how a person
can become a total nightmare to another person. Bullying needs to be stopped in
order to save many lives.
Dear
Dad
Summary: Mooneye films is a film and video production
company established in 2011. Mooneye films is an independent film company
specializing in the production of community, corporate and event films. This
company also works with shorts and features for offline and online audiences.
Mooneye films produce all types of film and video including music videos,
promotional videos, concert films, and weddings. It was written directed and
edited by James Hardy and produced by Oscar Rhodes.
“Dear
dad” is a short film about bullying and its consequences. Scene one: involves a
teenage boy at age 13 that wakes up in his bedroom and an alarm clock going off
right at six a.m. The boy dresses up and leaves for school. This is a rainy day
where this teenager has to walk on some empty streets. The boy passes by and
alley where two other boys encounter him and approach him and throw him on the
ground. Right after one of the boys empties his backpack on the wet ground the
two attackers leave. During the assault, Tim is told he is a waste of space. A
lady appears on the scene and she’s is talking with one of the boys. At this
point they are at an office. The thirteen year old boy’s name is Tim and on his
way back home, he encounters the bullies again Tim takes another street and the
boys follow him. The leader of the two grabs him but the other boy tells the
leader to leave him alone. The leader doesn’t listen and gets mad instead and
punches Tim in the stomach. The boy
named Tim vomits do to the hit in the stomach. Tim shows pain.
Scene two: is six a.m. in the
morning again and one of them doesn’t want to molest Tim and tells the leader
of the two to leave him alone but the other bully doesn’t listen and the alarm
goes off as usual and Tim shuts it off as he normally does. Next Tim appears in
the same alley again where he gets attacked by the two boys again and this time
he gets pushed to the ground and kicked in the stomach again. The same lady
from scene one appears talking to Tim and asking him the aggressor’s names to
report them and make them stop. Tim tells the lady that she will never make it
stop and stays quiet. The lady asks Tim to contact his dad and he says he
can’t, the lady questions him why not, Tim gets upset and leaves the room.
Scene three:
it is morning once again and the alarm buzzes off as every morning. Tim appears
walking in the same alley once more again. The two boys that bother him every
day walk towards him. Tim begs them by saying the word “please”. Right after
that segment Tim is in a room with tears in his eyes and rolling down his
cheeks, he has a sad face.
Scene four:
it’s morning time and the boy Tim turns his alarm off as he’s used to. On his
way to school and walking through the now well knows alley he takes to go to
school, the two boys come across his path. Soon after, the same lady comes up
on the scene talking to Tim. The two get into an argument over Tim needing to
call his dad and the lady telling him not to make the situation more difficult.
Tim says that the situation is not easy either, gets mad and leaves the room. Next
Tim is his bed crying deeply and sadly. He starts to recall on the times he’s
being hurt and attacked and molested by the two boys every morning and starts
writing a letter. He addresses the letter “Dear Dad”.
Scene five:
in this scene Tim is walking towards a bridge where right underneath it there
are railroad tracks. Tim is looking very sad and while on the deck of the
bridge he decides to climb on top of the handrails of the bridge. Tim slowly
lets himself fall off the bridge.
Analysis:
Day 1:
the first day we see it is rainy. Tim wakes up at a certain time every morning.
He has a daily routine. The rainy day makes us feel sad and cold. The empty
streets project loneliness and it makes Tim look vulnerable. The two boys in
the alley are the bullies violating Tim’s life. Tim is being harassed by the
teenage boys when he heads to school. One of the boys didn’t want to bother Tim
at that time but that doesn’t exclude him from the damage they were causing
Tim. This guy is guilty as the guy hitting Tim. He was watching Tim get hurt
and did not do anything to stop it. This means that the person who bullies and
the person who watches bullying being done and ignores it, is as responsible as
the bully himself. This is something that often happens.
Day 2-3:
on day two and three, the attackers are waiting for Tim and looking forward to
hurting him. Tim wasn’t doing anything wrong to deserve being bullied. The lady
in the film is a counselor from school trying to help Tim solve the problem.
The counselor wants Tim to talk to his dad but he says he can’t. This gives the
audience the impression that Tim doesn’t have a close relationship with his
parents and in this case his own dad. The film shows the same routine over and
over again. It is morning time and Tim’s
agony to go to school starts all over again. Tim gets attacked in the same
place again and this time he shows signs of desperation by telling the bullies
“please”. This is the first time Tim talks to the bullies since the film
starts. The only thing Tim does is cry and continues his daily routine. This
scene shows signs of insecurity from Tim when it comes to seeking for help. Tim
doesn’t seem like someone who trusts others for help. This is the last time
that the film shows Tim’s daily morning routine. The purpose of the repeated
alarm clock going off at the same time every day was to shows that Tim was
awake before the alarm clock when off. This means that Tim was lacking sleep
time thinking about what was awaiting for him out there on his way to school.
Day 4: This
scene shows us a sign of bullying which is a repeated act of aggression. A
violent behavior towards Tim had become a daily routine in Tim’s life and he
wasn’t doing much about it to solve it. The counselor tries many times to help
Tim into talking to his dad about the situation but he would always say that he
couldn’t do that. This shows that close relationships with our relatives is
very important and that we need a special bond with people we can trust and ask
for help. Tim needed help but didn’t trust anybody enough. Tim obviously didn’t
trust the counselor either. This leads to Tim committing suicide. The letter
Tim wrote his dad wasn’t to ask for help but to let him know about his drastic
decision. Tim’s daily bullying aggressions towards him got him to the point of
thinking that the best way or solution to solving his problem was by committing
suicide. Tim decided to get on a bridge and end his life by jumping off of it. Tim
never told on his oppressors and that costed him his life. From this scene itself
we learn that bullying can and is destroying people’s lives on a daily bases.
This
short film on bullying touched me very much because Tim’s story did not end up
for the best. Tim ended his life by supposedly taking the easiest way out of
the problem. There is a very strong connections between this film and my social
issue. Bullying is known for being a repeated behavior of aggression towards a
person. Bullying can damage people’s confidence towards opening up do to fear,
and pain. Bullying can induce into committing suicide just like Tim did. This
film on bullying shows how Tim was being bullying on a daily basis. It was a
daily routine for the bullies to hurt Tim on his way to school. For Tim it was
so emotionally and physically depressing to get up in the morning and head to
school. Tim knew he was going to be hurt again, and again.
Bullies
Summary: Emma Nostrom as a student from Queensland
Essential Learning School in the state of Queensland Australia, she created an
art piece on bullying which she named “Bullies”.
Emma contributes to the Art Education Kit Website program of Queens Lands
Essential Learning by uploading her art pieces which she uses to express her
feelings. Emma did some research on the issue and used her own experiences as
well.
In
this art piece there are eight people, four guys and four girls. Seven of them
are made out of bad words and one is a solid shape. Some of these words are die
loser, I hate you, you have no friends, I’m sorry I am too weak, whatever, I am
not even sorry etc. They all are wearing ties around their necks. Seven of
them were given a specific bright color
and one a pale color. These colors are blue, green, brown, purple, red, pink,
and gray. Two guys are talking on the phone, two are just standing there watching,
two are talking to each other, one is kneeling down and covering her face with
her hands, and one is bending down and with his hand close to the kneeling persons
head. The background of the image is black.
Analysis: To me this art piece represents how the
bullies became bullies do to violence around
them and against them. This image is saying that these bullies were once
mistreated badly, called on bad names, verbally abused, insulted and also put
down as to weak or inferior to others. This is what the bodies composed of
words represent. People become bullies do to physical and mental abuse. This
image clearly shows the bully attacking the girl kneeling down but also shows
how the people just watching there not doing anything about it also contribute
to the bully aggressions. The bright colors represent how well these people
might think they are putting others down. The gray color on the girl kneeling
down represent how miserable she is and feels being aggravated by her oppressors.
The color gray represents not feeling bright or colorful. The ties on their
necks tells us that not only children get bullied but adults too and not just
within non-educated people but within professionals too. The dark background
symbolizes obscurity and evil against the victim.
This
piece of part indeed represents my social issue on bullying because it
represents the two sides of bullying. The image shows that bullies were once
abused by someone as well, whether physically or verbally mistreated by name-calling
and or rejection and by this lowering ones’ self-esteem. Bullies also need help
overcoming their past experiences and confronting their aggressors as well. The
victim in this picture is being tormented by the aggressor and is taking peace
of mind from her. As I mentioned in my essay on bullying this type of violence
happens around people that don’t do anything about the abuse and that we should
all care for the issue and how to resolve it. This art piece well fits with my
research on the social issue because it is showing the victim, the aggressor
and the people who witness the abuse and how all can become involved in the
matter, and not do anything to stop it. This art piece focuses more on the
bullies than the bullied. We often think about the victims of bullying but
rarely about the bullies having been victims as well way before becoming a
bully themselves. Bullies need our help too and instead of condemning them for
the worst we should
Why
I bully you
Summary:
Shaun Robinson is an Emmy Award Winning Journalist, television host, producer
and the author a book called “Exactly as I Am”. Shaun Robinson is also a
television and digital content producer an entrepreneur and philanthropist. She
was the co-host of the news show called Access Hollywood. Shaun Robinson is
from Detroit, Michigan and currently stays in L.A. she received the
“outstanding Coverage of Race & Ethnicity” award from Columbia University.
Shawn Robinson produced and directed a poem called “why I bully you” as a clip
video. This poem as a video was written by Gina lorning and the concept was by
Shaun Robinson.
Part
one: it involves teenage girls and there is a total of ten
of them. They are from different races, African-American, Asian, American, and
Hispanic. They are pretending to be bullies. They are talking mean to someone.
There is lots of insults, some of these insults are, your fat, ugly, too tall,
to short, stupid etc. there is laughing and angry faces. Hatred is spoken in
this poem.
Part
two: the girls are crying and yelling too. Some show sad
faces. Some of the words told in this part are, powerful, ugly, imperfection, I
want to fit in, I don’t like myself, nightmares, scared, my father hits me,
gay, and I see myself in you. The bullies confess the truth to their behaviors.
Analysis:
Verse
1: in the first part of the poem the bullies are talking
to their victims. The different races means that bullying doesn’t discriminate
race. Anybody can become a bully not making them by his or her skin color,
language, gender or race any less harmful. The insults told by these bullies
are just how mean and offensive bullies can be to the victims. Words can be
more lethal than physical bruises. Bullies often show enjoyment and anger to
their victims to cause them fear. Bullies always pretend being cool and smarter
than others, they try show being happy with who they are.
Verse
2: in the second part of this bullying poem, bullies
aren’t proud of themselves. Even if these bullies pretend to be smarter and
happier than the people around them, in reality that is not the way they feel about
themselves. The insults in this part lest us know that bullies don’t feel good
about how they feel inside and how they behave either. These people are showing
weakness and inferiority. The meaning of the insults spoken in this part of the
poem in this, that they bullies truly confess why they hurt others. The bullies
confess that they bully because they don’t like themselves and this is not
because they always felt bad for them but because someone else might have told
them how they should feel about their personality. Someone in their lives
forced them into acting with violence.
When I found this poem online I right away decided I
wanted to use this video as part of my ending piece of art in my exhibition
because it reveals the truth on why the bullies treat other people badly. The Confessions in this poem clearly testify
that they themselves were treated wrongly by someone they knew. This poem
connects with my social issue on bullying so strongly do to the fact that
bullies were once the victims just as their victims now. Bullies don’t just
become aggressors fun the fun of it but because violence around them. By these
putting together this art exhibition on bullying I have learned that bullies
along with the bullies they both need help urgently. Deep inside their hearts
and minds they have both been victims of structural violence.
