Reading Response #2

1.When making decisions concerning art, it is important to consider many things. some of them being the persons, concrete situations, and the behavior of the people in them. there is no meaning behind art unless you are imagining persons, behavior, and concrete situations. This must all be taken into consideration when creating and designing art.

2. As an artist, you cant always see that an idea will work out. In the excerpt Mad Scientist  by Douglas Coupland, it often takes days, months, or years to see your artistic vision emerge. Something feels goof or right or working when you are apart of it and genuinely care about what it is that you are producing.

3. Sometimes all it takes is a break from pondering and a change in perspective. If something isn’t working, take a minute to step back and think about why. A change in scenery can always help, like Maria Lind says in her excerpt What If, “The scholar is on the verge of giving up when he suddenly realizes that he can find a solution if he goes to a city on the other side of the world and there study in depth an entirely different problem with an entirely different solution. After three years, he returns home with a solution to the second problem and thereby also confirms his first hypothesis.”

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