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--
Will clanton
1/5/2022 07:09:44 am
It looks like there is a bed that seems to be empty and there is a book on the bed showing that the person might have been reading or relaxing. The room looks to be super empty maybe showing that this person has just moved in. There are photos on the wall of a baby that could be family and the shoes on the ground show that its like a home to him. it feels very jail like and the box has all his belongings and is maybe where he keeps everything.
Georgia Martinez
1/5/2022 07:14:12 am
This image depicts a bedroom, the walls are completely bare other than some baby photos taped up by the bed. The covers are pulled up, so the bed is made, there is a book and some sort of cloth and there is a box of towels at the foot of the bed with a pair of shoes next to it. The image only shows the very corner of the room and that is all that is visibly present. It is using very little colors, the cover is brown with a little bit of light blue in it. This biggest pop of color is the red linen in the box and the bright baby photo on the wall. Other than that, all of the colors are very neutral and blend together, white walls, black bed frame, gray floors. It has brighter lighting but there are a lot of shadows cast over the room, giving a sort of ominous feeling.
kendrick De Luna
1/5/2022 07:14:27 am
looking at this picture makes my wonder different places. I wonder why they shot this. also wonder if that's someone kid that's hanging up on the wall.as I read the statement above it made think why is the person in a correction center. I wonder if this person has a roommate.
Owen Alvares
1/5/2022 07:14:38 am
In the picture there is a light blue carpeted room with white walls a small bed with 4 baby pictures on the wall taped.
Krish Puri
1/5/2022 07:15:37 am
As I look at the image, I can see four pictures on the wall of a baby. Two of the pictures are in color, and two are black and white. There is also a bed that is made with a book on it. There is also a box with clothes and a towel in it. Next to the bed there is a pair of worn sneakers.
ethan green
1/5/2022 07:15:44 am
the photo shows an empty bed with books and shoes scattered across an empty room. I also see for pictures on the way maybe describing the guy in juvenile detentions previous life before going to Juve. There is a box and the box describes a past life.
Kaleb Yu
1/5/2022 07:22:13 am
On the surface level, it's just a bed in the corner of the room with miscellaneous objects around it, like a box full of clothes and a pair shoes besides it. The blanket on the bed has a dull, almost faded red color. The room is pretty monotone in the sense that it's only like two colors, those being grey and a sort of grey-ish blue. The lighting looks like it's coming from a window on the right-most side of the room.
Dylqn Dorgan
1/5/2022 07:24:52 am
The first thing that is noticed upon viewing this image is the bed and its red sheets. The color easily stands out amidst the dull shades of the floor and wall. This draws the focus of the viewer to what is supposed to be the main draw of the image. Further more, the angle of the bed adds depth that helps someone viewing it realize that there are layers to this image, akin to an onion. Its rectangular shape fits very well in the rectangular image which makes it satisfying to look at.
Brooke Kapoor
1/5/2022 07:25:00 am
This photo is so simple it's complicated. I feel like there may be something I am missing. All the different colors, different components really make my mind wonder the intent behind it.
Heath Bryant
1/5/2022 07:30:32 am
The image appears to be of a persons room. It looks like there are used towels in a box at the end of the bed. There are baby pictures on the wall. There are old shoes next to the bed. The image doesn't have bright colors and looks bland.
Aubrey Robbins
1/5/2022 03:45:50 pm
I initially started writing in the wrong class blog with the picture of the boy with the wood railing covering his face and read the project statement over what his pictures were about. then I saw that I was writing in the wrong class so I moved to this one but in this picture I didn't see how the project statement reflected on the photo because the picture is what looks to be a miniature middle of a room with baby pictures on the wall. and I don't see how the two correlate in the other one it makes sense it's a boy who was convicted of a crime but in this one it looks to be an ordinary room. I suppose the point of the photograph is that these types of things happen to normal people with ordinary lives but what else is there to this picture? the only other thing to go off of is the items in the room but there's a book on the bed sitting next to a beanie then there's shoes on the floor lying next to a box with what looks to be a towel with a hoodie on top of it but that's it there's nothing else that's the whole picture. Comments are closed.
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