I think it has been two weeks since my last post. I wanted to post something on how I tried to do contouring. I think the colors I picked were still too similar. So I didn't get the result I wanted. Anyway I started a new blog for the art project my sister and I wanted to work on and that's probably going to take up most of my time now
http://everylifeimportantalways.wordpress.com/
if you are interested and here's the facebook
https://www.facebook.com/everylifeimportantalways
I switched to wordpress because I wanted to see how it was different from blogger. I heard that these were the top two free blogs. Right now I like blogger better, maybe because I'm used to it, but it has more options for free. It was also easier for me to figure out who to use and it connects to google plus.
Friday, August 22, 2014
Monday, August 4, 2014
Beauty with a twist
Every once in a while I am met with an atrocious act of humanity like murder and it makes me wonder why, and what if things were different. Most times it would be a story I heard in one of my geography classes. Besides making me depressed it would cause me to think about life, purpose, and how people not value human life.
My sister would also come home with similar experiences. I used to tell her that she, having taken a few ceramics classes, should make a piece of art for the person she had just learned about and name it after them or display it in their honor.
I was reading a book that made a comment on how little people think of human life. It went over ideas and opinions on euthanasia, abortion, eugenics, population control, infanticide and other aspects of human life-death decisions.
I like to everyone that they are beautiful. Not everyone will agree on who is beautiful and who is not, what's important is for the individual to believe that they are beautiful and to feel good about themselves. It doesn't matter if someone doesn't think that you are beautiful.
What if someone doesn't believe that you are valuable? or that you have an impact on this reality we live in? What if they think that a position they have or a decision they make or the lifestyle they want is more important than your life? What if that person comes to the conclusion that you are not worthy to live and then acts on that?
So this is it. I'm starting an art movement, hopefully. The goal is to remind humanity that each life is important (and that is why each person is beautiful). I guess I'll start by making a Facebook page and post articles/pictures/quotes/art. Then maybe if I get enough artists and projects I could organize an art exhibit. To honor the value of human lives.
The more we devalue humanity, the easier it becomes to harm, kill, and destroy a person or a group of people. Every human life is valuable no matter age, form, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, intellect, skin color, criminal record, or lifestyle. If you want a better world you need to believe this, teach this, and act on it. "Who says you're not important?"
My sister would also come home with similar experiences. I used to tell her that she, having taken a few ceramics classes, should make a piece of art for the person she had just learned about and name it after them or display it in their honor.
I was reading a book that made a comment on how little people think of human life. It went over ideas and opinions on euthanasia, abortion, eugenics, population control, infanticide and other aspects of human life-death decisions.
I like to everyone that they are beautiful. Not everyone will agree on who is beautiful and who is not, what's important is for the individual to believe that they are beautiful and to feel good about themselves. It doesn't matter if someone doesn't think that you are beautiful.
What if someone doesn't believe that you are valuable? or that you have an impact on this reality we live in? What if they think that a position they have or a decision they make or the lifestyle they want is more important than your life? What if that person comes to the conclusion that you are not worthy to live and then acts on that?
So this is it. I'm starting an art movement, hopefully. The goal is to remind humanity that each life is important (and that is why each person is beautiful). I guess I'll start by making a Facebook page and post articles/pictures/quotes/art. Then maybe if I get enough artists and projects I could organize an art exhibit. To honor the value of human lives.
The more we devalue humanity, the easier it becomes to harm, kill, and destroy a person or a group of people. Every human life is valuable no matter age, form, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, intellect, skin color, criminal record, or lifestyle. If you want a better world you need to believe this, teach this, and act on it. "Who says you're not important?"
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