The Bigger Picture

This week we had our final visit to the Museum of Contemporary Arts in San Diego and I feel like I learned a lot about how I want to set up my zine and cleared up some art realms that were blurry before. Specifically, I had a breakthrough to conceptual art. At first, I didn’t understand the purpose of this because there was no purpose to me to create something substantial or “boring” to look at.

When I first saw this piece I didn’t get the whole thing, all I would take from it bits and pieces and saw it as pieces of a blueprint that were hung up together. Little did I know that by looking at just two, I could make some sort of connection. That connection was enough to connect to the next piece I looked at and then the next, then the next, and finally the entire collection as a whole. This is where I finally got how the artist was using data and analysis to create idealism in humans and why it was museum worthy. It created an image of so much more in your mind and made you explore reasons as to why society has affected us this to believe a certain way. In that instant, I began to believe about the message of stereotypes and societal norms and came to the realization that this was considered because of how it made you think. The message it conveyed is the art in itself and the pieces are just to prove the message evident.