In "How Texts become Real" the concept of investment giving meaning was addressed. As I read this I was able to relate greatly.

I immediately thought of my time as a young boy in Argentina and the emotion connection that I had the television show Batman the Animated Series. I went to an argentine school and was not only the only foreigner but for the first year or so could not understand any of the conversations happening around me. Each day I would wait patiently to go home and watch Batman. He was also alone, he like I, was surrounded by a strange world in which he did not fit in. To the general public he was a crazy man in a costume and to the costumed villains around him he was their bane. Through all this I began to relate to him and those that fought along side him I pictured myself as Knightwing. He to was alone working separately from Batman but always knowing he had an ally somewhere in the night. This gave me great comfort and helped me as I slowly began to learn the language and make friends.

To this day I have a strong emotional connections to Batman. While I like the films they have much less meaning to me because they do not have that value I gave them as a child. It has less to do with content and more to do with the meaning I have given to it. In fact I much prefer to read Deadpool comics.

         For this assignment I wanted to draw from my experience with the piece. I wanted to create a piece of art much like those that I would make as a child. I made sure to use construction paper glue and children’s scissors. I wanted to have this art that was so familiar to me represent the negative experiences I had as an outsider. I was made fun of often would associated the schoolyard bullies with the villains on the television. I placed them around me as a child dressed as Batman. I then took lines from the villains on the show and put them through several rounds of Google translate before lastly translating them to Spanish. This was the Spanish is how I heard It broken and confusing yet still full of cruelty.