Travel Art! Part 1 & 2

I was not in class this week because we have been planning our family reunion for the last year and a half.  I'll be using pictures from that trip to relay this weeks assignment.  The only art I can respond to is the art/photos I took from my reunion.

The sun rises across Western Kansas as we
make our way to Jay Oklahoma.  It reminds me of
the many things we live with on a day to
day basis with no thought as to what would
happen if the flow of agricultural goods just
stopped flowing.

Modern camping.  Cabin with a loft bed, full bathroom,
showers, running water, TV, sofa dining room and fully
furnished as well.  Bouncing off the first picture.  What the hell did we do to become so reliant on our modern technologies and comforts.  Would we make last, the second these things were not available.  How self-sustainable are you? 

Beauty unabridged.  Life on the lake.  Simply awesome. 

This is a close up of a tree in an area that had
recently been hit with a tornado.   Like most of the trees
in the area flowing in one particular direction cause of the south to north
wind blowing each day without end make it sway a particular direction.  It
to does not conform to a strict set of rules.  It just bends in
the direction that the wind takes it.  Unknowing, flowing to the
tune that nature presents it.  We could probably learn a lesson from this
if we open our eyes, minds, to the power nature holds over us
and realize how fragile we all our.  Humility!

Boy comes out of bouncy cage.  He does not have cares
about sustaining the earth.  All he see is the fun he just had
and the next adventure lying before his eyes.  He's not clueless,
but rather just his eyes have not been opened to the potential hazards lurking around the corners of our minds.  Is it better this way, or is knowledge the answer to our plight.



Sights Set on Fun

The child comes out of the bouncy house with smiles of joy and a head full of sweat.  He's tired, but he is not concerned with this.  His eyes turn to the giant truck, coming down the gravel roadway.  It passes, and the child see the swings and the slide just down the road a bit and he runs for them.  Not a care in the world but only once he becomes aware that the next fun thing is within reach, he darts for them with unadulterated joy.  This like Berger poses "Seeing comes before words.  the child looks and recognizes before it can speak" p. 7, J. Berger 1972.  The child knows that is "Fun" before he can say it.  He reacts accordingly, springing into his super hero of fun costume before he can tell everyone he is the super hero of fun. 

This idea of seeing before hereing can be antiquated to the idea that now that we see, we can be seen which in the eye of the beholder can be good, or bad, or neither.  It can cause a reaction from using what we see to affect the world positively or even shying away from it to not be "seen".  In the words of Berger again "The idea of innocence faces two ways.  by refusing to enter a conspiracy, the one remains innocent of that conspriacy.  But to remain innocent may also be to remain ignorant"p. 32, J. Berger 1972.  As compared with the boy above, he did not remain innocent.  He chose to dive in, with no thought what possible consequence may befell him in this next adventure.  He had only a single mind focus, one of setting his sights on fun.

 





Works Cited

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. British Broadcasting Cooperation and Penguin Books Ltd: London 1972. Print.