Sam

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I chose this art project for 2 reasons. the first reason is because the soldiers over seas never get as much credit as they should no matter how many people suport them they never get enough. I know that my art project will not be enough to make up for all of the people that do not suport our troops but I like to do my part. I feel that most marines would like my art project. I also did this project about marines and there battle over seas because i will soon be joining them. I will be enlisted in the marine corps by the first of july. I know a couple of marines myself and they would be very pleased with this project.

The procces was not very in depth but it did take a lot of thinking. I wanted to do a couple things differently but I could not due to lack of matierials. the first step was creating my mask which went very well. another step was picking my project theme which was also quite easy for me because I have only one thing on my mind at this time. the hardest step was thinking of how I would show my theme in the best way I could and show my gradititude to corps. The step of actually putting together my prject and making it something was quite easy I simply glued on some dirt from my raod to represent the sand of iraq. glued on a picture of some fellow marines making there way through the sand storm and finally poping out the head terrorist of the iraqis making it look like the marines were marching right towards him. I put the two bullet casings on sudam to represent where the navy seals shot him in the raid of his hideout. I would have put on a picture of sudam dead but as you might know the government refused to realese the photo at this time.

The question is whether or not i would concider my peice of art, art. absolutly, I have use the gray dull backgrounds as a representation of how war, although needed, is not a colorful subject. I also used the creative side of the brain to think of how I could pop out the theme without color and I thought the best way to do such a thing would be to physically pop out the marine symbol for the mask on my project. I also had to think of way to make it look like he was a soldier and I thought the best way to represent that was to put the sand on the mask and make it look like the sand will stain the skin of the soldier for life.