Final

I have mostly used this term as a way to explore different ideas I hadn't thought of before. At first, I had wanted to do a term-long project and make something truly amazing, but by the third week, my mind was too filled with other ideas to want to stick to the one I had planned on doing so I dropped the idea. I wanted to mess around and see what I could make and what ways I could challenge the prompts we were given each week. But as time went on I realized I wasn’t very happy with much of what I did, none of it was “perfect”.

I have never actually taken an art class before now so several of the principles we learned, mainly Gestalt, confused me. I wasn’t sure how I could do certain things using only my phone. I felt like I had to create works of art that could rival an art major. But what really helped me to break out of this mindset was seeing other students work and seeing how they were able to do creative things that didn’t have to be astounding or world-changing to be amazing. “In a world where almost every designer has instant access to a vast image database and online search, there is little wonder why the landscape of contemporary graphic design is mired in mediocre solutions…” (pg 13). I know this quote was meant to shame artists who take the easy way out, but it stuck in my head and as the term went on it became a point of petty realization that I took this quote as a guiding truth in creating my art. I am bad at art, and I love that I am bad at art. Art for me has become a way to mess around and see what I make, bonus points for how messy and imperfect it turns out to be.