Here is my final entry.


I guess this post is extra, but it's not like I don't do lots more than one creative thing a week. In other words, this blog was incredibly easy to maintain. Okay so...this piece...I can't relate it to any lecture or reading. I can't really explain to you how it came about. Pretty much, I was drawing and the basic lines appeared, and I realized what I had done. I didn't intend it to be all blue at first, but after I started I had difficulty choosing other colours to complement the areas I had already filled. I used graphite, acrylic paint, chalk, and ink. The whole thing took me two or three days, working sporadically of course. The lines suggest to me something like whiplashes, or cracked glass. I don't really want to go into meaning, because I think the point of art is to communicate a meaning which you otherwise could not. If words could say everything we wouldn't have visual arts, just like if pictures could say anything we wouldn't have words. As this course draws to a close, I realize that most people in it don't actually care about art...and I think art and creativity are synonymous. Everything you do has art in it. There's an art to the way you brush your teeth in the morning, and there's an art to how you tie your shoes. It's right there if you choose to see it. And that is what creative being means.