Wk 3 – art discussion – you can find art anywhere

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  1. You can find art anywhere if you look for it. Meanings can be given, no matter how abstract, to the most random and seemingly inconspicuous things. The important thing is that it has an impact on you.
  2. When looking for art you can look for things like movement, contrast, textures, or a variety of other factors, but I think the overarching theme is that you look for something you can translate. Something that translates into an analogy, or a metaphor, or an idea, or an emotion.
  3. I think sometimes you never really ‘know’ its art. Just because something is art to you, doesn’t mean it’s art to someone else. So I suppose you know its art when you see the art in it for yourself.
  4. I think art certainly can be everything. You can take a close up of the texture of just about anything and appreciate that texture. You can focus on smaller parts of bigger things that themselves may not be aesthetic or impactful or otherwise stand out and therefore may not be art. You can break things down and observe them in different ways and in different perspectives. Art is often limited to beautiful things, or things that are created with the intention of being art, and I think that is simply not true. 
  5. A curator is one who collects and puts together pieces of art to create something bigger. A curator can create an atmosphere or aura with the collections and assortments of the pieces they curate. There are professional curators, but one does not need to be a professional to be a curator. Many of us create playlists, and I think that is the equivalent to being a musical curator.
  6. A curator is different than an artist because they are not directly creating art. While they create an overarching energy that can enhance and emphasize art, they are not creating the art themselves.
  7. I think social media has not killed loitering. Then again I have no idea the extent that people loitered before social media, as its been around as long as I’ve been a conscious adolescent. But I still see people loitering and enjoying the environment, whether it be a city, or a park, or beach, or just some random street, I don’t believe social media has killed loitering.
  8. A flâneur is someone who kind of just hangs around and basks in the energy of an area. They may stand around, or walk around, but they have no real place to be or things to see, they simply exist in a place. They are in no rush, and they are in the moment and they’re just taking things one moment at a time.
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