Art Contest

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Design Poster



I've decided to enter the 2007 Art Contest being held on Campus for TAMU students. I will be submitting one of my works of a photograph I took at St. Mary's Catholic Church that I altered to change the contrast and colors to show the beauty of the light and shadows throughout the picture. The original picture is the first one and the second picture is a picture of the design poster I made of the church and image altered.

This is an important piece to me because it's religious so right away I have a strong connection to it but the way the light falls on the Virgin is very delicate but beautiful. It highlights her and creates a serene feeling that I tried to capture using a camera. The way the light streams in through the window makes a very calming soothing spiritual feeling. I then transfered this into several smaller frames of the same picture to create a design poster. This poster was used previously for submittal for my design foundations class taught by Professor and Artist Dick Davidson who gave me a respectful grade. It's not so much the grade that matters but the fact that it's a religious piece without necessarily saying so and is moving from my perspective is what matters most to me.


Art contest entry form

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Name Erica Salinas

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Hometown College Station

Major Environmental Design

Classification U2

Title of Work Blue Virgin

Medium Photography


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Photography

Physical Description
Compsition and collage of Photographs

Artist’s Statement
See blog above

See things is a different light.