In completion of Visual Studies 280 with Tony Dubovsky, I have learned about art in a myriad of new forms. We were often confronted with the questions: what is art? is this considered art? what makes this a piece of art? etc.
Art has been found to be an extremely personal medium in this class; one that allows us to express who we are, what we are doing, and where we are going in life. Art itself is a journey that we pursue in the larger journey of life.
Art is in all things, if only we look closely enough. Upon completion of this microscopic journey, we have found pieces of ourselves in the art we and our classmates have created. It was truly a visual study of the self by finding connections between words and images and their multiple meanings to multiple people. I think what I learned is there is no one way to go about our personal journeys nor to make art. Everyone can pursue it and create it. Our own art has a particular meaning to us, but it also has a multitude of meanings to different people that view it.
Upon completion of this small journey in visual studies, I also discovered how much I love to make connections between word and image; the artistic capacity that both a word and an image have, particularly when combined together.
That's all for now, but I will continue to practice my own creative visual studies through my journey of life.
Thanks Tony and classmates for an enlightening semester.
