During this project, there were a lot of bumps in the road but it smoothly paved out towards the end. I learned a lot of things during this project and one of the main things was being able to spray paint. During our process, we used spray paint a lot because Beth liked the rainbow because it really spoke out to her and gave her a good feeling and hope. I had spraypainted with many different colors and mixing and dotting with this spray paint it turned out to be a beautiful design. It was very difficult at first because I had no idea what to do and what the safety precautions were but with a little help from some of my friends I got the hang of it.

 The second most important thing was time management which was the most difficult because of school visits and classes I and Jimmy had together. But Mrs. Vulgaris was a huge help and I don't know what I would have done without her. But overall I understand time management a lot better and this will also help me in the next school I go to.

My biggest takeaway is definitely on how to work in groups and how to manage your time with your partner's. This was the hardest thing for me because Jimmy and I didn't have too many classes together. So that meant we had to make schedules on what to do for the days. Also, we had school visits which did not help either. 

Even though this process was really hard the feedback that we got was amazing. The mid review changed our whole project which I wasn't fully on but when I saw the beauty in this project I knew it was the way to go. Mrs. Vulgaris helped me during the second half of the project a lot with the presentation and some of the prototypes. Also, Mr. Minehart helped a lot with the artistic statement and historical context. Without this feedback from teachers, I don't know what I would have done.

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Reflect on at least three takeaways that you learned from creating your project.

1. I learn that old people have different point of view than us as I interview them, to illustrate, out person Beth claims that she don't really like nowadays advance devices include Youtube and phones.

2. I learned how to make things out of milk jugs, Ms.H give me Drew an idea of milk jug, I learned how to make art out of milk jugs by spraying and glues on it.

3. I think I am closer to my partner as we worked together, after the interview, my leg is hurting and my partner Drew wait for me patiently and we cross the field slowly and we had a nice chat together.

Explain what was difficult for you during this process and why.

The hardest part is definitely our milk jug project, it's a hard process and there are many steps to follow, we need to spray, cut, hot glue, LED lights. Therefore it is very tough for us. I don't know what we are suppose to do for two classes because I am very vague about what to do, but teachers are so helpful and I was able to go through hardships.

Talk about feedback that you received and how you were able to incorporate that into your process.  

All the teachers love the virus prototype we did because it was so inspiring and I think it's successful because such feedbacks. I am thankful that I have a good partner Drew who is able to help me a lot while I was out on interview. 

Jimmy and I are putting together a story on how Beth had depression and what she is doing now.

During 1980, Beth became depressed and it wasn't just her in her family that was depressed, her father was to who died a couple of weeks ago. But during this time she told her parents that she was depressed. She became depressed at age 32 and she knew, later on, she wanted to speak out to human services and homeless shelters on how they should not keep all this stress and all these bad feelings in and talk out about them and give other people hope. Hope was one of her main mottos hope because she has told herself this all the time because depression is a very strong thing and she gives herself to hope and hopes when she speaks out to other people she gives them hope. Then later on in her life, on September 11, 2001, 9/11 happened and she thought this was the turning point in the world. She thought that the world was a better place without as much terrorism and bombing but after it was like that. Still today she talks to a lot of human services and gives hope to those people in need.

The inspiration behind this installation was to symbolize Beth's depression and the strength it took for her to overcome this disease. Our goal of this project is to represent the hope that Beth now feels to combat depression. Our inspiration came from Beth's story she shared with us in a follow-up interview. One of the last organizations that she worked with is called HOPE. She was asked to deliver a speech for the organization and had one of her best human service speeches.  On her trip home, as she was reflecting on her speech, she looked out the window and saw a rainbow, which she felt was representative of the way she now lives her life, with hope. After a couple of iterations, we finally landed on a project using a milk jug theme that has been cut up and spray painted.  One can see the beautiful colors of yellow, light blue, and pink to represent the hope and warm feelings she felt when coming out of that speech.  There are also small dark pits inside of the milk jug to represent depression itself. As one walks away from our project the idea for them is to be left with not the darkness of depression but the hope that one can use to overcome it.

I walked to the car door with the sun beaming down on my face. Out the window a rainbow as far as the eye can see. The sense of beauty and hope filled my spirit. I would always remember that day as the eyeopening rainbow just popped with beauty.