© Zora Murff Today you will be writing about this image by artist Zora Murff, which is from his series titled Corrections. Your analysis must be 4 paragraphs, 5 sentences minimum per paragraph. Remember to post your analysis as a comment to the blog post that corresponds to your class. If you post your analysis to the wrong class's post, it will not be graded.
Below is a project statement written by Murff about his body of work, Corrections: From 2012 to 2015, I worked as a Tracker for Linn County Juvenile Detention and Diversion Services in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. As a Tracker, I provided services to youths who were convicted of crimes, adjudicated, and subsequently ordered to complete probation. Juveniles in my charge were asked to comply with services which may include: electronic monitoring, therapies, drug screening, and community service; it was my responsibility to have continual contact with them to ensure these expectations are met. Tracking and other similar community-based services are being increasingly used as an alternative to detention facilities. These services, which allow juveniles to stay in their homes, show a higher rate of success than strict incarceration. Although community-based services are built to foster a collaborative relationship between juveniles and service providers, attaining the actualization of teamwork becomes problematic when juveniles feel that they have done nothing wrong, are victims of circumstance, or do not fully understand why they have committed a crime. The system has been put in place to provide rehabilitation, but it is far from being a straightforward process. Many influences outside of the youths' control such as education, socioeconomic status, and race all play a role in whether or not a youth reoffends - all of these factors possessing the propensity to lead them to extended periods of incarceration in the juvenile system or to involvement with the criminal justice system as an adult. By reconsidering the role that I played in the lives of the kids I worked with, I began to acknowledge the burden that comes with tasking young men and women with continued complicity. My stance as a consequence kept our relationships in a state of flux ranging from stable to tenuous – a constant motion mirroring the discord that develops between the system's intentions and outcomes. Through employing ideas of anonymity, voyeurism, and introspection, Corrections is an examination of youth experience in the system, the role images play in defining someone who is deemed a criminal, and how the concepts of privacy and control may affect their future. Refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
Eduardo Saucedo
10/4/2018 01:06:57 pm
the image is about a bedroom. its using very light and dark colors to make it dramatic. the objets that are included are a bed, dirty clothes, and shoes. the image is describing an empty room with quietness.
Eduardo Saucedo
10/4/2018 01:09:25 pm
The image is about a bedroom. its using very light and dark colors to make it dramatic. the objets that are included are a bed, dirty clothes, and shoes. the image is describing an empty room with quietness.
Campbell Streak-Jensen
10/4/2018 01:10:30 pm
The image is of a person's room. There is a book on the bed and a box in front of the bed. There are shoes next to the box and only four baby photos on the wall next to the bed. It looks like the light is natural. The direction that it’s coming from makes me believe it is a window.
Daivd
10/4/2018 01:21:15 pm
This image by Zora Murff shows a room with a very small bed and a box next to it filled with clothes. This is a correctional facility based on the fact of how boring the room and the colors look. The room in general seems very dreary and not a place you would want to be. Judging based on the light casted in the wall it seems like there is a window on the other side of the room. There are also baby photos on the wall that may be this person's child or baby sibling.
Shayna Bolton
10/4/2018 01:12:51 pm
The image is of a juvenile's bed, and some of his belongings on the floor and on the bed. It shows a red and blue patterned bed spread, some books sitting on the bed, and a few clothes and a pair of shoes next to it. The bed is mainly red to contrast against the plain wall and floor. There is also a bright orange jacket, or piece of cloth, in a box, it draws attention to the other components of the picture. The lighting is quite bright, it may be used to symbolize the hope of future for the child, the light in his life that he can look forward to.
Reagan
10/4/2018 01:19:18 pm
The Blacked Room
Sarah Guerra
10/4/2018 01:22:22 pm
This image depicts the room of a juvenile delinquent. In the picture there is only a bed, five pictures on the wall, shoes, and a box with different items. The room and colors seem to be very dull except for the red cloth in the box and the picture of a baby surrounded in something blue. I think these colors are being used to show how juvenile detention isn’t a very happy place. There seems to be a window light is coming out of and then the shadow of the bed on the wall.
Paolo Hernandez
10/4/2018 01:24:12 pm
This image is about a room in a juvenile detention center. This is the room of someone under the age of 15 that has committed some sort of crime. You can tell because he is in the juvenile prison and in order to be in a juvenile prison you have to have committed sort of crime. There is some basketball shoes, so you can tell that the guy in the juvenile prison plays basketball. There is a good amount of lighting due to the window that is on the opposite side of the room. There is some clothes in a laundry bin that most likely belongs to the the person in the room.
Hannah Growney
10/4/2018 01:24:23 pm
This is an image of a juvenile detention room. This picture only shows a bed, a box, pictures on the wall, and shoes. The lighting seems to be bright sunlight from a window. The colors used dark blues, reds, and grays. These colors are used to show that juvenile detention isn’t a happy place.
Andrea Gonzalez
10/4/2018 01:25:19 pm
Critical Analysis #3
Paul Borrego
10/4/2018 01:26:36 pm
The image is of a juvenile’s room with shoes and laundry next to their bed. The room is mostly cooler colors with the floor being blue. The lighting is bright and looks natural, not studio lighting.There is a pair of basketball shoes next to the bed with baby pictures next to it. There is nothing happening in this image.
Hannah Barrow
10/4/2018 01:27:08 pm
This image is of someone's bedroom. There is a bed, a pair of shoes, and a box with clothes and a towel in it. There are pictures on the wall of a baby. On the bed is a book that I think is the Bible and what looks like a hat. The tiles on the floor are blue-gray. The cover on the bed in maroon. The walls are painted white. The room looks like it is being lit by a window that is out of the frame. There are no people in this image. There is nothing happening in the image.
This is an image of a room. I can see a bed some clothes and that’s it. But when I examined closely I can see some pictures on the wall and a book on the bed. The color of this picture is kind of grey. One thing that I’m sure is that there isn’t any lights in this room. This is a picture of simple empty room with nobody.
Anson Adamek
10/15/2018 01:19:44 pm
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