Sustainable Art

My idea was simple, really simple. It was trying to represent a child’s idea of a self portrait using beans. I think my art piece did represent my idea because it does look child like and even the sun that I put on the side is something that I recall adding in a lot of my childhood drawings. My choice of materials influenced my experience of my artwork because I felt like a child doing arts and crafts. It was like using little bits of pasta or macaroni when I was in kindergarten and would do some sort of drawing. It helped so that my art piece, which I would say is very low level, look like an actual art creation by a child. Kisses can last different amounts of time depending on the moment. Is it a first kiss? Is it a more sexual kiss? Is it a kiss goodbye? A time limit can’t be put on a kiss because it’s something you determine in the moment depending on would it be awkward if you go too long or too short. A great meal can last any amount of time as well. A great meal can be an hour and a half long for a five course meal with a date at a fancy restaurant. It can also last 40 minutes with friends before everyone has to go home. Ideally, a marriage should last forever, however, if the individuals realize they made a mistake it may be shorter. Furthermore, if one of the partners turned out to be a horrible person, it should last a little bit of time as well. There should be no time for how long life lasts. This is because of death. Death is what scares us but motivates us to as much as we can with our lives as we go therefore, there shouldn’t be a time on how long a life should last. The fact that some things have a finite time and then are gone does make a difference in the way we experience them because we will appreciate them more. We would be able to experience them with more meaning because we would know that we would only have it for a limited time. With something that would last an infinite amount of time, we would eventually get tired or bored of it and wan’t to move onto something else because perhaps it might not entertain us like it used to. With those finite things however, we will appreciate and care about them more because we know we could lose it at any moment. I believe that things like clean water, air, and land shouldn’t be sustainable and long lasting because then it will force us to think about the actions that humans take which affect these things. It will make us more mindful to limit our impact and try to reverse our effects as well. I believe one person does have the power to make a difference in a global problem like Climate Change because although one person alone might not make the difference, individuals united do. One person might plant one tree and so will another, but if it wasn’t for those individuals to make their own decision of planting a tree, there wouldn’t be two trees planted.