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Jessica Ringer
Reflection: Across Countries

There are hundreds of ways to explain a story, but using an image always can help get the message across. For our art project, we had to use imagery to reveal a story relating to the Philippines. In my piece, I am try to show the migration of Filipinos to America in the early 1900s.
  
Much of my concept for this first art project came to me from the guest lecturer we had last Wednesday from San Francisco State University (SFSU). The Professor from SFSU said that many Filipinos came to America to look for work and a better life. What many of the Filipinos had hoped for became the same working conditions and labor that they had back home in the Philippines.

My project is a map. By using a map, I wanted to show how the Philippines and California are slow closely positioned and only separated by an ocean.  I burnt the edges to make it appear older. What I am trying to convey is several different messages. I really wanted to work with a map to give viewers a sense of the relationship of the Philippines and the United States. During the early 1900s, many Filipinos migrated to the United States looking for work and a better life.