3. HW:
Think about skills that you know, that are important to your family, your traditions, or that you pride yourself in knowing.
Describe in a paragraph-long blog post how you would adapt one of those skills to make an artwork that communicates something important about you, your family, your culture, or some important knowledge about yourself. Think about what materials you would use, the location where you would display the artwork, the group of people you would ask to help in the process, if any. Let yourself think about this problem throughout the week. When your write,be detailed about the how you learned the skill, why it's meaningful to you, the steps in the process, and how you would incorporate other meaning into this process, and what it ultimately is produced as a result of this process.
One skill I am extremely proud of having is optimism. You might not think optimism is a skill but to me it is, especially since it is so hard to come by these days. People mistake optimism with ignorance. Its hard to understand because I do understand that bad things really do happen I guess I am just one of those people who still don't, I guess, accept it fully, at least I don't want to. I am not ignorant which is why I have pride in my optimism I have always seen the cup as half full, never half empty so I don't know exactly when or how I came to be this way. In fact every thing I grew up with would point to me being a pessimist. The fact that even as a child I didn't let bad things like thieves, drugs, alcohol, the constant "no" betrayal etc. , affect me makes this really important to me. If I had to portray this skill through art my piece would have a girl or boy in a "bad" place. The bad place would be a gloomy gray place with thunderclouds and lightening in the back round but surrounding the child would be things I've gone through and had to push past. Like a scenario of a thief, someone similar looking so it'll appear as if its a sibling, neglectful parents, the parents can be saying horrible things to the child, and someone doing drugs. All of this will be really close to the little boy or girl as if the events are beating down on them. In the piece you would also get to see into the head of the child, their in a happy place, no thunder clouds, no gloom, nothing illegal and good parents. Oh and the only place I would ever put my work of art would be somewhere all of this occurs too frequently for it to still be going on.
