Final Critique | Christian Solorzano

My Worst Job.

I didn't expect this project to make me think so much about a particular job that has nothing to do with my major. Although the job I choose as my worst job was a brief job, it is a job I would not like to repeat. 

This project was presented in class digitally. Our presentation was held through the projector and we went over several critiques from both the professor and our peers. 

My first design was a deconstructive image consisting of multiple layers of text. The overlapping text affects readability but with the power of our eyes, the message is not impossible to decode. I worked at a cemetery as a maintenance guy. My tasks included keeping the area up to the standards of Catholic Cemeteries. This position also included assisting the guests and guiding them to specific areas of the cemetery. Around Halloween time we would get a lot of silly people that would come and ask us specific directions about where Resurrection Mary. Part of my job task included keeping the cemetery safe and free of people attempting to vandalize graves. Since I knew this wasn't going to be a permanent job and I was going to end it a few months into the future. In this design, I bring nothing more than my feelings towards the toll that work can take on your day.

Second project was geometric due to the fact that there were two objects diagonal from eachother. One of the objects illumates the other. On the top right there is a clock and the lower left there is a lunchbag. This design represents how constrained my lunch felt while I worked at the cemetery. The gray color reprents the lifelessness that I felt while working there. 

Third would be my favorite. It is Integreative and compares my mood throughout the day, similar to the the other designs. The photo is of the entrance at my job and although the gates never move once the cemetery opens, my mood shifts from task to task, primarily because I felt like I didn't belong there. The two numbers in red and green, signifiy my state of content. I was nor happy nor sad, I was just there to be there for no real reason. So most of the time, I felt like I was just surviving there. There's a gradient over the photo that goes from black to gray. Although it isn't too strong, it serves both as an aethestic arrangement and as a metaphor that once again conveys my mood throught the day. 

When I compare my work to other students in class, I see my work as visually spreading an idea but since we all had/have different jobs, it's hard to compare different personalities and experiences but over all, as a class, I think we all did a good job.

My strengths in this project are that I feel like I managed to get the three design paradigms right to the point. The deconstructive, intergrative and geometric are all true to their name. My weaknesses would have to be that I found it difficult to evoke true dislike for my worst job. Although, this was the worst job I had, I feel like since it was such a short job, I didn't really have the time to grow to FULLY DISLIKE the job. So, I guess looking for different solutions to match the project description was somewhat of my weakness. At times, I felt like for this project, you had to exagerate a bit.