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What water is to human, art is to an artist “Life”. When I first registered to the course everyone started to tell me you should have taken another elective class, you don’t know how to draw nor to imagine what have you done, drop it and take something else. Today I am done with this course and I am really happy that I didn’t drop it. Art is not only drawing it has various broad. I learned a lot through this course, specifically how life is seen from another person’s view. The word contemporary is defined as art made and produced by artists living today or art since 1960’s. The most powerful is that the mediums reflect what is happening today and how it is revealed by today’s modern society. I learned how site specific art could design the whole imagination of the piece. For instance, this place I’ve done this and this and it reminds me of this and this; I used to it reflect and propose what I felt and what I thought of when I used this place. Too many stuff that I never thought of when I didn’t know art. …show more content…
I started collecting photos from the memory, focus on the pattern, time and location. Then I started thinking of people that I am going to include, the environment, the war that I am focusing on. I used all what I’ve been taught from this course, timeline history, social movement art, contemporary art and off course the artists that we learned about. I cried when I started to establish the final piece of my art. I didn’t imagine I’ll be able to get all this pain out of me. The movie spoke what I had suffered all years and how my life seemed. I photographed a live history but from my lens, the lens of being a victim of war. The victim that can record how it feels to see dead bodies, blood and war all around the place. I survived this but how about others? I chose the pen to write out the story because that’s my art, that the way I explain

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