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I have always loved
using art to express ideas, and found it interesting and sometimes challenging
to express creatively/artistically the same idea that I could in writing. There
are a lot of times in which I find that writing is much more complete in expressing
ideas than art is, simply because art often leaves the audience grasping at
their own conclusions of the piece, especially because since writing can be so
complicated, one cannot fit the literal meaning in one or two of three pieces.
This pushes art in the abstract direction in order to completely say what is
needed, which poses yet another problem: abstract art leaves much to the
imagination. So I suppose my own goal is to make one or a few pieces of art
that expresses the general tone that I want, with a few specifics, in such a
way that the audience can appreciate - or perhaps wonder at the meaning at
first, but which slowly becomes clearer and clearer, ending on an epiphany at
the end.
In class, as the project
was introduced, I knew I wanted to do something artsy - although creating a
piece of music along a topic also seemed super cool...but unfortunately, I'm
pretty awful at improvising and composing music ;__; But as I started thinking
of ideas to work off of, I had a little trouble. See, most art pieces on
international aid are super emotionally charged - whether it's a depressing
image, or an oppositely happy image, there isn't anything besides infographics
that transmits information like writing a semi un-biased paper does - and even
then, both carry hints of potential emotion in them. Along those lines, I can't
possibly avoid expressing something artistically that doesn't somewhat elicit
emotions in the viewer - so perhaps I could incorporate a bit of both.
Eventually I wandered
upon the idea of rising above the need for aid, and bringing people out of
poverty. But unfortunately, not all humanitarian aid helps people further
themselves – look at the 7-Worst-International-Aid-Ideas article for reference –
and even when the intentions and ideas are solid, it won’t be that easy to
solve the problem that so many people are suffering of. It’s like a cliff. And
while we can bring goods and services and funding “down” to them, the cliff to
where relative prosperity exists is almost exponentially high. And how better
to depict this than a figuratively-literal representation of the cliff, the
yearnings, and struggles to raise oneself past poverty? I think I’ll end up
doing a few pieces along these lines, probably in order, and definitely in sort
of a dark and depressing tone. While there are many positive aspects and
results of humanitarian aid, those are not the aspects that need attention to
improve their condition and the world as a whole. I’d love to be able to bring
attention to some of the harsher truth that people ignore or are not aware of, and
show what isn’t effective and what else needs to change in ways that writing can't achieve with such an impact in that short of a timeframe.
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