Too Screwed 4 Skewl
Yeah.. I think my brain's pretty whacked out from the 3 years in poly. I haven't been thinking like a philosopher, and for that, I'm kinda blank during my first - Intro to Lit and Western Art History class.
It's amazing how the mind can perceive something simple to be really complicated. The lecturers were constantly talking about using logic and perception, too much guesswork for me. But I wonder, have they ever been through the exact mind of the author/painter? They could be wrong. What if the author never intended his story to be read in this particular way? What if the author wanted us to read like a child reading a storybook? I just feel that we're all thinking too much and it makes us cynical.
Also I was pretty disturbed by my lecturers' comments about artists and designers. All in all, they agreed that these people are out to fool the rest with their creations. Many designers are out to build a profit either for their companies or for themselves. Will I ever be such a designer? I pray not. I stand firm for my faith and conscience. One can never ever bring their earthly possessions to heaven. I just pray that in time to come, the designs that I churn out, will be made in God's name. He was the one who made me who I am today.
Which reminds me of what my 2D drawing lecturer made us do during our first lesson.
"Draw a mind-map, starting with the question "Who Am I?"
And my 3D lecturer told us to draw our own interpretations of a Vitruvian Man (that man with many extended arms, locked inside a circle and a square by Da Vinci). And again, we had to probe DEEP... Design is philosophical...
Yeah.. I think my brain's pretty whacked out from the 3 years in poly. I haven't been thinking like a philosopher, and for that, I'm kinda blank during my first - Intro to Lit and Western Art History class.
It's amazing how the mind can perceive something simple to be really complicated. The lecturers were constantly talking about using logic and perception, too much guesswork for me. But I wonder, have they ever been through the exact mind of the author/painter? They could be wrong. What if the author never intended his story to be read in this particular way? What if the author wanted us to read like a child reading a storybook? I just feel that we're all thinking too much and it makes us cynical.
Also I was pretty disturbed by my lecturers' comments about artists and designers. All in all, they agreed that these people are out to fool the rest with their creations. Many designers are out to build a profit either for their companies or for themselves. Will I ever be such a designer? I pray not. I stand firm for my faith and conscience. One can never ever bring their earthly possessions to heaven. I just pray that in time to come, the designs that I churn out, will be made in God's name. He was the one who made me who I am today.
Which reminds me of what my 2D drawing lecturer made us do during our first lesson.
"Draw a mind-map, starting with the question "Who Am I?"
And my 3D lecturer told us to draw our own interpretations of a Vitruvian Man (that man with many extended arms, locked inside a circle and a square by Da Vinci). And again, we had to probe DEEP... Design is philosophical...
Vitruvian Man
Leonardo Da Vinci, 1490
Pen, Ink, Watercolor over Metalpoint, 34.3 x 24.5cm
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
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