“Movimiento.”
Movement can represent changes in physical or emotional space, action, time, or access to freedom. When movement is extremely limited or controlled, such as in schools or prisons, our senses are automatically heightened to it. Even the smallest movements—shuffling in lines, eating in a crowded cafeteria, or rushing from place to place in hallways—can become chaotic. In large crowds, movement often becomes a collective blur.
For this project, I have asked students to create a set of photographs that best represents movement within Benito Juarez High School. Photos can be of a crowded hallway, a slow-moving clock on the wall, a school sport, the view changing outside a favorite window, etc. I have painted select images, which will be hung around the school in areas with varying degrees of movement. I’m interested in how movement is interpreted between different artistic mediums, in physical spaces, and as fixed art.
-Thanks for giving me this opportunity to express the importance that we should all give regarding Movement. Movement equals change, without movement there would be no progression.
-Being able to share my artistic ability that has got me through the last two and a half decades of incarceration, in my eyes, it’s truly a sign of progression.
-These paintings that represent my progression should make those that view them realize that any movement backwards in life, may make your life stand still, as I stood still for two and a half decades for the mistake I made.
-After discussing my pieces of art, please view my other pieces of work on Instagram @jch_convictedart and see if you can identify a theme from several other paintings and how it relates to progression, other than movement as you see here. Thank you all for attending. In Solidarity – Juan
