One of the quotes which jumped out at me immediately was: “Sleeping Muse doesn’t need a viewer or a context to be / feel “complete”. Its meaning doesn’t seem to be derived from or be in dialogue with its context.” This is particularly inspiring because, while art will always be inevitably absorbed within its given circumstances, I do believe that it can also exist independently of its surrounding context(s). I do wonder, however, if this can be applicable to all community engaged art or if there are certain exceptions? The term “Constructivism” is new to me, and after taking this course in conversation with my time at CalArts, as well as my own personal lived experience, I think that I believe in both “art for art’s sake” as well as Constructivism. I do wonder what it means for artwork to be “socially responsible and socially responsive public art”? I would like to delve further into that concept because I don’t know if I fully grasp what it is. The term “Plop Art” is also new to me, and it's beautiful to me that individuals, even if they don’t possess direct relationships to the sites in which they work, can make art in any place at any time. Lastly, John Dewey’s statement that “The object is recognized as the site for the dialectical processes of experience, through which artist, active observer, and their culture encounter each other” definitely stands out to me. Therein lies the vitality of artmaking as a whole - the notion that we can communicate between the maker, the audience, and their lived experiences.
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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