This class changed everything for me. Design III: Time was the first time I was truly pushed to experiment, to mix visuals with emotion, and to turn my ideas into pure expression. We weren’t just assigned projects—we were told to create something real using who we are.

These are the three projects I made:

Obsession & Repetition is a visual metaphor about overthinking. I created a character who moves through life wearing an astronaut helmet—trapped inside their own head, emotionally adrift and cut off from reality. The concept was heavily inspired by Space Oddity by David Bowie. I was drawn to the loneliness and detachment in that song—Major Tom floating further from Earth, from connection, from self. That feeling became the emotional core of the piece. The turning point comes when the character removes the helmet—grounding themselves back into the present, and finally beginning to live.

Wearable Art (Inspired by David Bowie) – Bowie has always been a creative compass for me—his style, his freedom, his fearless embrace of the strange. I built this piece around Life on Mars?, a song that wrestles with illusion, performance, and disconnection. It became a way to explore how we get trapped in screens and spectacle, constantly performing just to be seen. Through fashion, movement, and surreal, spacey visuals, I wanted to capture the moment of breaking free—of turning the performance inside out and reclaiming something real.

Sound – For the last project, we could only use sound as our prompt. I made a piece about how music shapes our emotions and memories. Rock, spanish music, pop—each moment shows how music has helped me and my family feel something, heal something, or just keep going.

This class helped me figure out what kind of stories I want to tell—and how to tell them in my own voice.

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