Myths, Home, and Self-Portraiture
     The exhibition that we saw in the Newark Museum by Wendy Red Star and Kambui Olujimi address the themes of identity, personal narrative, and home in many ways. The way they showed them self, and their culture is very unique and different, it gave me a clear understanding of our self-portrait project, and how a self-portrait shouldn't be literal.
The works by Wendy Red Star were very straightforward yet very effective. Wendy showed her archive of information and history on her ancestor. The installation of the crow people was a very odd installation. The fact that she glued all of the cutouts of the  Native American culture and her ancestor really changed my expectation of a self-portrait. Wendy did not only glue the cutouts on the wall of the gallery space, but she also placed them in an order of a timeline, and she wrote right on the walls of the gallery. The timeline of the Crow through the years was humorous at some points. Looking at the timeline really gave me a huge interest in her culture, that it made me want to find more about it. The part that I enjoyed the most was sitting in the lodge. Sitting in the lodge created an atmosphere of the culture it almost felt like we went back in time. What made the lodge even more exciting was the graphics and the sky that was projected inside the lodge. I felt that almost everyone was very excited t sit inside the lodge especially that it was closed off to make you focus on the inside and not be distracted by all of the other work in the gallery.
Kambui

Olujim in his piece was very similar to Wendy’s lodge it captured all our attention by placing us in the story. He was able to capture the viewer's attention by placing them in a 360 view of the story in the planetarium. Although it was a very cool experience the way he presented and showed the story was very confusing for me to understand, and no matter how much I tried to follow along I would end up getting lost again. I like the form of abstract concepts, but I had a hard time keeping up with the show. It made more sense once I read the pieces on the wall that was located outside the planetarium.
Although I believe that culture mythical is very important to my self-portrait since its part of who I am today. I'm not sure if I will be adding any mythical attributes to my pieces since I'm taking on the challenge of designing myself into a 3d form and dividing it into many different materials. since I'm conveying that we are made out of many layers. It's what makes us who we are today.