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Ana Teresa Fernandez is an artist who creates art with deep meaning behind them. Most of her work is related to social standards in gender, gender standards in media, and social justice. Ana Teresa Fernandez was born in Tampico, Mexico but now lives in the Bay Area in San Fransico. Ana Teresa Fernandez art work consists of paintings and sculptures. Her paintings look like photographs from far, but once you look at it closer, you will soon realize that it is actually a painting. She mainly uses cool neutral colors for a few, but some of her paintings use dark colors.  Some of her paintings consists of social standards/ media standards in relation to gender. In her work Telaraña (The white painting), she points out that artist and media try to portray clean, and pleasing looking pictures of women. She points out that nature is beautiful, and sometimes nature and or something that is natural is not alway clean. She uses these paintings in order to create a sense of discomfort ...

Week 1 Activity. This was the first time using plaster so it was an interesting experience. Although I was unsure how to use plaster in the beginning, it was nice to know how easy it was to use plaster. It technically took only 3 easy steps to use plaster and create a mold. For a beginner user of plaster I think this mold came out fine. Although if I ever do use plaster ever again or create another mold of my hand, I would try to separate my hands a little more to create more of a hand look. Other than that I also learned that I could use plaster to fix my walls that need retouching. While I waited for my plaster to harden, I started looking into what plaster was used for and now I know that plaster can be used on many things. But in the end I would try to separate my fingers to make a more distinctive hand shape and probably put in part of my arm as well to make it look better. This experience was truly an interesting one and glad I did because I learned something new.