A picture a day

Passing clouds

Every time I say “passing clouds”, it cracks me up. It is tough for me to consider it as a phrase. If you listen to the way the words are pronounced, it sounds like noises we hear in our daily life. It’s fun sounding. Just like that, certain people are passing clouds in our life. They are fun to hang out, very entertaining. But that doesn’t mean that they will stay with us for the rest of our time on earth. They will move on. This was something that I took a long time to understand. I assumed that my relationship with everyone would remain the same. A hard blow taught me that it wasn’t true. Not everyone is going hold my hand and say “I am here for you”. The people who do that are our loved ones and friends. You can keep on moving forward and there will be people, walking by your side, in the same direction. But when you fall back, no one is going to stop, turn around and give you a helping hand. They will move on, without you. The people behind you, your loved ones, will help you up. The elders always say, “one day, when you stop and look turn around, your loved ones will always be behind you.” Now I understand. When I fall, I will have the support to get back up. Not everyone is a passing cloud.

Finale;

When I first heard the phrase,’ analogical thinking ‘, it seemed like a big word. Maybe something a lawyer would use. But when my teacher explained to me the meaning of it, I realized that it was something we do in our daily lives, knowing and unknowingly. In this class, we learnt that there was a force connection between two things, learning and allowing me to broaden my mindset on the way I viewed things and brainstorming. Opinions from other people can be of use and I should not be afraid to express myself. This lead me into thinking, “how am I to apply this in my work?” This will allow me to shape my ideas into a more interesting and vibrant art piece. I can actually step into someone else’s shoes before coming to a biased conclusion. After attending this class, I hope that the classes in the near future could be conducted outdoor more often. As mind-mapping was taught in secondary school, knowing the basics of it seemed unnecessary. However, new ways of brainstorming, other than mind-mapping, could be taught. Lastly, not forgetting the main reason for understanding this entire concept, my teacher, Mr. Harezam. It was easy to comprehend, even though the phrase itself seemed bombastic. He reached out to the class through his humor and honesty, which made him more approachable. 

A picture a day

Does religion affect art?

Sunday the 4^th of October was the feast day for church I attend every week, Church of St Francis of Assisi. The feast day in Catholic or Christian church is a big day where we give thanks and praise our patron saint. Even in the convent school, CHIJ Saint Theresa’s convent that I was from, we celebrated patron’s day.

outside the church,
the carnival

The church I go to is air conditioned and it’s usually very cold, but on Sunday there were too much body heat produced. After mass, there was a carnival waiting outside. There were performances, food stalls and games. Well, performance and games were alright but the food was amazing. When we were eating our meals, I was talking to my older sister about school, my younger sister suddenly said I should draw a picture of Jesus. The first thing that crossed my mind was whether religion affects art?

I think religion can affect a person’s point of view in art, I think it depends on how faithful or mature one is. I meant I am a person who like skulls, the color black and other mythological figures like the Greek and Egyptian gods, but that doesn’t affect my view on my religion. The only way I think my religion affects me is that every time I draw something out of my imagination I want it to have a message. For example, how in Hinduism one sculpture can tell thing 3 different amazing story or how Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine chapel; not only to decorate the chapel but to also allow people to reflect on the scenes he had paint. I think when a person has both interest in their religion and art it can make life more interesting. In my point of view, when I found out there was more than one religion I wanted to know more about other religions and experience the colours they have in their beliefs and tales.

When people can get inspired by many different thing the art industries becomes like a universe. Each inspiration, such as religion, race, culture or anything that can classified, becomes a Milky Way Galaxy; and in each Milky Way galaxy, the different plants or stars are like different ideas.

Linking disparate ideas and building musical sculptures

I love how Felix Thorn can use ordinary object and beautiful music. It reminds me of the time when we were in primary school we had to make instruments like the annoying maracas. So instead of that I remember make a castanet like instrument using two spoons and a rubber band. In the video, we can see that he uses everyday object to make music, sounds that people get easily annoyed by. Sounds such as the sound of hammering. Oddly, enough there are is some sounds such as the sound of the drill that others think is annoying but I think it’s sort of soothing.

The one thing that surprised me was that fact that Felix Thorn is an adult who came up with this ideas. I meant it’s the children who are usually knock on objects try to have fun.

Force connection 2

 Easy Mixer

My family and I love to bake so I thought it was easier for me to think about a object that will help us in that way. The invention I thought of is an electric mixer combined with a batter dispenser.  I thought it will make work easier. I mean instead of transferring from the mixer to the dispenser, why not have both the products together. I call it the ‘easy mixer’, I know the name is not so creative but oh well. The product also makes environment cleaner and there will be lesser mess to be cleaned.

 The product will be made out of plastic, and as for the age group or the intended audience, it would be 10 years and above; I think children younger than 10 should have parental guidance. For the size of the product I want it to be small than usually mixers as I always hear my mother whining on how it is so big and heavy. And this leads to my next point, weight. For a person who is small and does stay in one place, I think the product should be light as well.  I have also noticed that usually mixers have a rather short wire and they are not detachable so I would my product to have a long wire and it to be detachable so that if a person wants a longer or a shorter wire they can always purchase a another one.

 In conclusion, I would invent the easy mixer as it would make mine and others’ experience better.