dialectics: hidden identity and great art

A guy who is an excellent artist but hides his identity… this guy is Banksy.

Banksy is a guy who decided to follow his passion, no matter if that meant breaking the law. He is known for putting his own works of art into museums and graffiti around the city. As many people know you can’t just walk into a museum and put up one of your pieces of art or go around doing graffiti. But for Banksy he didn’t care. He loved what he was doing and he was pretty damn good at it. But what he didn’t expect was for people to notice or become in love with him. So he created a pen name to protect his true identity from the law. But why did he care if he was such a great artist even after his art exhibit which the whole city loved?

A guy who was a copy cat artist but lets his identity shine…this guy is Mr. Brainwash (terry).

Terry was a guy who wanted to make a video about Banksy.  After all his studying and interviewing this video became more about himself.  He took the ideas of Banksy to put up out of the ordinary graffiti and to create an art exhibit. This wasn’t the only thing that made him a copy cat; he would look at books of other artist work and then photo copy it and change something about it. On top of that he would sell his works for tons of money. Yes in some cases he was a good artist but how can we give credit to a man who copies other artist and whose passion is mainly to be more and bigger than the other artist. Why does someone who is aware of copying other artist get away with showing his true identity?

Metacognition: MashUp

When looking at the list of words to choose from it was very hard because I had only minimal ideas for each and I wasn’t sure on how else to explore those ideas. But I didn’t give up I reread my reflections and read the listening skills passages. I used my working memory to bring out stronger ideas and I listened to Mr. Allen’s advice that we should pause and let the more complex ideas come out.

As I started letting the more complex ideas come I was all of a sudden bombarded with ideas and thoughts. For some reason the topic of gender really intrigued me. I took this topic and made it more specific to the female gender. What my thoughts were is that women are often looked down upon and that we have been dealing with this for centuries. When in reality; we are capable of the male work.

Has I was working on my mashup I noticed that it was very hard to get my thoughts and ideas out. One of my struggles was putting them in an order that made them talk to each other. But I did find that while finding other sources and quotes in my subconscious it really bothered me that women are seen differently than men. It drove me crazy thinking about how for centuries women are seen has not capable of certain things and all the stereotypes about women there really are. I really liked how I was able to become aware of some thoughts that are in my subconscious. Now I really wonder what else I am unaware about in my subconscious.

I would have changed the amount of time spent on this project because I think that if I spent more than just a couple days I would have gotten better results and my passages would have been easier to put in order because they would naturally talk to each other. But over all this project was very fun and I would have liked to do this more throughout the year with different topics.