3/26/19
3:35 PM
March has been really busy for me— between projects, spring break, deadlines, work, and my recent addiction to Pokémon games, I’ve been pretty lax on this blog (also taking time to listen to a lot more content to write about in the recent future).
Sorry.
To compensate for the lapse from posts, here’s a short bit about me.
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For those of you who may not know, I’m currently a senior at the University of North Texas, working towards a Bachelor’s degree of Fine Arts with a concentration in photography. Being in art school was something that I’d never expected in my steps, but life is pretty crazy. This whole website was actually made for a class and for my photography, and the music aspect was something I thought of while designing the page. It’s fun.
Anyway, having almost finished my curriculum and preparing for my senior exhibition, (Apr 25th, come support! lol) and having kept up with this blog for about half a year, I looked back at my processes and inspirations. I noticed a lot of my work revolves around moods or emotions like fun, lethargy, reminiscence, or the lack of emotions as well. Music affects my mood and energy level a lot— the relationship of how I take in music and transfer it into my work is very direct. From listening to something that makes me want to make some “dope” work, to being reminded of past recollections, music and art both have faculty to invoke the sense. I feel that visual art and music in their essence, are both so intricate and variable which make both easily accessible and/or appreciated; fine details are nice, stuff that is more noticeable is too, things are cool and crazy when you stop to take a deeper look and think about them.
Music has taught me about different cultures and lifestyles, as well as people to a lesser degree. Art taught me a lot about histories and to look at perspectives. What I learned from both aspects helped me to appreciate artwork notably, I consciously or unknowingly involve those ideas into my craft often, this translation of one form to another seems very mercurial and it’s great.
In conclusion, this was a really jumbled up post I wrote during my advanced art history class about some thoughts I had the last few weeks or months. I guess if I wanted anyone to take something from this whole deal, it would be to really think about doing something that you enjoy every now and then. For me, those things just happen to be music and art; it matches up and makes sense to me. Hopefully, you all find things in your relationships, work, and in life to make every day fun too, whatever they may be.
Thanks for reading friends, I’ll be back soon with more content.