What surprised me is how long community based art existed. It never really occurred to me that there are many forms in which such art can exist. It reminds me of a discussion I had in class about the politics of architecture and how certain designs in space can be a reaction to a political schema or can be directly used to manipulate the behaviour of large communities. It also brings up questions in how we few art today. On one hand you have aesthetically pleasing art like the works of Yayoi Kusama and on the other you have more political pieces like the works of Banksy. The "Fountain" would be a great example of something like this. From a traditional point of view, the "Fountain" would be just an average toilet, but because of the context in which it was made, the piece became a provocative piece of art that would influence a large number of artists today.
Issues that have been impacting my life and the ones around me mainly revolve around environmental issues. One of the pressing issues that affects the agriculture community in California is the State’s distribution of water. Now a tactic that the State Government has had for many years is to take water from Northern California and send it down to the South. The south is in need of water as they do not get enough to support themselves, but the issue is a bit larger and encompuses the states refusal to create more reservoirs to store water to be used during the dryer months. But the main issue is that the focus is uneven and falls heavily on the side of sending it to the south instead of distributing it evenly so farmers in all regions but mainly central and southern california have the proper amount of water to grow their crops. California is one of the leading states in the production and exporting of agriculture products due to our vast and wide scale of geological environments, but ...
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