Project 3
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This was by far the most challenging project I did all year. To begin with, I am not particularly skilled when it comes to the visual. I have spent years developing my ears, but I have never had much prowess in the visual arts. I do like smashing things, however, so this project allowed me to explore a medium I wanted to become more comfortable with. The idea for this was spawned out of my own habits as of late. For the past couple months, I have been watching more and more TV as well as reading less and less. It's not that I have anything against TV in general, but I do feel that it promotes feelings of laziness and complacency within your life that I strive to break away from.I chose to make it a pinata because a pinata is almost the polar opposite of a TV set in terms of the level of technology, enjoyment factor, and usefulness. Much the same way that beating on a piece of technology can be a cathartic experience, the participant now gets candy as well...it's a win-win situation. I had this vision of some guy in a suit getting fed up with his TV and then smashing it to pieces in a fit of anger, so I wanted to do something that was a visual representation of that feeling. I was also thinking about children and how the current generation is being raised with TV as the standard of enjoyment. Kids are brought up by TV shows and this bothers me greatly. It makes me think that all of these children are going to grow up embodying the very words I wrote on this piece. The words written on the TV are:
This was by far the most challenging project I did all year. To begin with, I am not particularly skilled when it comes to the visual. I have spent years developing my ears, but I have never had much prowess in the visual arts. I do like smashing things, however, so this project allowed me to explore a medium I wanted to become more comfortable with. The idea for this was spawned out of my own habits as of late. For the past couple months, I have been watching more and more TV as well as reading less and less. It's not that I have anything against TV in general, but I do feel that it promotes feelings of laziness and complacency within your life that I strive to break away from.I chose to make it a pinata because a pinata is almost the polar opposite of a TV set in terms of the level of technology, enjoyment factor, and usefulness. Much the same way that beating on a piece of technology can be a cathartic experience, the participant now gets candy as well...it's a win-win situation. I had this vision of some guy in a suit getting fed up with his TV and then smashing it to pieces in a fit of anger, so I wanted to do something that was a visual representation of that feeling. I was also thinking about children and how the current generation is being raised with TV as the standard of enjoyment. Kids are brought up by TV shows and this bothers me greatly. It makes me think that all of these children are going to grow up embodying the very words I wrote on this piece. The words written on the TV are:
- mediocrity
- apathy
- boredom
- complacency
- dullness
- indifference
- lost
- stupidity
- mindless
- aimless
- lethargy
- disinterest
- neglect
- monotony
- envy
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