Balaclava is a place that I know, but I actually feel like I do not know much about it. I am familiar with this place but I also feel strange for this place.
My idea started with a conversation with Chris on the day we first visit balaclava as a group. He asked me “do you like here?” I stopped a bit and answered “no”. “There are lots of weird people in here.” “That’s good, isn’t it?” He said. I used to come to balaclava because my father owned a gift shop in here, and often I see drunken man swearing to air, old women always with an angry face looking around, people wearing clothes that do not look ordinary for me, these abnormal things formed the daily life of Carlisle Street. It’s like a mess. Just like a plate of salad mixed with different fruits and vegetables, then when you try to name it but it’s find one. So I keep thinking why it is bad to have these “weird” people in here? What is Balaclava if they don’t live here? I couldn’t find an exact answer for these questions, …show more content…
We have things in common that gather us into a group, but essentially are we the same? We as human have the same background, same education levels still have different thoughts according to one object. “We unwittingly install mechanisms in our social world that systematically create distant others, silence the voices of the theorized, prevent meaningful conversations with those who constitute the social phenomena we wish to understand.” (Krippendorff,K. 2000) What makes us different built the world we have now. As long as we don’t hurt others, it’s ok to be different. Here may also come to the idea from Ben’s artist talk about our life is written by the predominant. We, on the contrary is writing the society in our own way, maybe our actions compare to the larger world is insignificant, but we are changing something every action we take. Do cherish the differences between us, as we are
My idea started with a conversation with Chris on the day we first visit balaclava as a group. He asked me “do you like here?” I stopped a bit and answered “no”. “There are lots of weird people in here.” “That’s good, isn’t it?” He said. I used to come to balaclava because my father owned a gift shop in here, and often I see drunken man swearing to air, old women always with an angry face looking around, people wearing clothes that do not look ordinary for me, these abnormal things formed the daily life of Carlisle Street. It’s like a mess. Just like a plate of salad mixed with different fruits and vegetables, then when you try to name it but it’s find one. So I keep thinking why it is bad to have these “weird” people in here? What is Balaclava if they don’t live here? I couldn’t find an exact answer for these questions, …show more content…
We have things in common that gather us into a group, but essentially are we the same? We as human have the same background, same education levels still have different thoughts according to one object. “We unwittingly install mechanisms in our social world that systematically create distant others, silence the voices of the theorized, prevent meaningful conversations with those who constitute the social phenomena we wish to understand.” (Krippendorff,K. 2000) What makes us different built the world we have now. As long as we don’t hurt others, it’s ok to be different. Here may also come to the idea from Ben’s artist talk about our life is written by the predominant. We, on the contrary is writing the society in our own way, maybe our actions compare to the larger world is insignificant, but we are changing something every action we take. Do cherish the differences between us, as we are