CRV by Me

My Textual Poaching Project "Birth of Venus," by Sandro Botticelli, shows Venus, the Greek Goddess of love coming from the sea as a beautiful adult woman. She represents physical love - the role a woman should always play - as well as inspired intellectual and deeper love for all. I chose this piece because I identify as a woman, which hasn't always been a positive thing through history. The purpose of this piece was to give power to Venus, a well-known and commonly represented woman in legend and history, and to depict her as beautiful and mysterious. She is nude due to the Greek representation of women that aims to focus on a woman as a whole, but also as a representation of sex and physical attraction. It was uncommon to give power and recognition to regular women, but it was a common thing to focus power on the women they knew in legend. There are 3 women in this painting, though Venus is the focus, and as I remixed the piece to represent my identity as a woman i...

Quite frankly, we had little-to-no knowledge of the lost colony of Roanoke until doing some general research about mysterious moments in history.  As it turns out, anytime people go missing, the search and remaining questions are generally very tantalizing—even when it’s only one person. When it’s an entire colony that’s gone missing, the intrigue is even greater. The frustrating thing about Roanoke is that the historical details and answers about the case are relatively minuscule compared to the gravity of the situation.  Understandably, the details are sparse because this happened in 1590; if something like this were to happen in 2017, creating a detailed and accurate narrative around 115 missing people would be perhaps an easier task.  However, a surprising advantage in writing the script with little historical answers is that it left reasonable room for creative liberty with the events. While liberty was taken with the script, the historical references that wer...