Reflections Art: One Mile Shoes

Last fall, JT entered a PTA sponsored art contest called Reflections. 

There is a theme given and entries are accepted in areas of dance, music composition, stories, choreography, visual art, and photography. The theme was "Diversity means..." We explained to him what diversity was and talked about what it meant to him. We were running the LB 1/2 marathon, Bubba Gump 5K and Aquarium kids runs. JT decided that he would photograph shoes of all the kids that completed the race. His artist statement read: "Diversity means a lot of people can run the same race. You don't need the same shoes to get you to the same place". Crazy insightful right? I was truly impressed. He shot all the photos on my Rebel XT, loaded them on to the computer, used iPhoto to give them a sepia ish look and then used the free software Picasa to make a collage. We had to submit it in early November and kind of forgot about it.

In May, we received an invitation to the Expo Art Center in Long Beach. There was going to be an art show and JT's piece would be on display. There would also be a ceremony for the participants. We headed down to First Friday (a street festival in Bixby Knolls) and checked it all out. 

When we saw his photo hanging up the ribbon next to it said, Award of Excellence. Come to find out he placed 1st! In the Long Beach Council for his category and age group! Awesome!!

Super proud of this boy!