In a recent session with my professor we discussed what makes a "professional artist" and this discussion led to a lot of ideas. For example is a professional artists someone who makes art for their career and makes money out of it or are they only a professional artists if they have a degree and qualifications or does none of that matter. After this as a class we were told to go out and make a piece of work responding to the "straight line" I didn't know whether this task was related to the previous discussion or not but either way my brain was churning and i decided to interpret the task in a metaphorical way. What I mean by this is I was think of what the straight line could mean and my thoughts led me to a place of thinking that "the straight line" could be the directions society leads us in our whole life. For example how every child is encouraged to go to school and get grades and then go to university and get a degree and then work and then family, arguably there is this set of ideals to what we should all be doing this "straight line" we should be following.
So I decided to make a piece of art disregarding all of those ideals completely both physically and metaphorically. So arguably choosing art as a career is already diverging of this perfect line but I decided to take that further and within a fine art class I wanted to do very basic techniques I was thinking of either finger painting or potato stamping like how I did way back in pre school but I didn't have a potato stamps finger painting it is. I also was thinking of the idea of guilty pleasure art as that's sort of frowned upon, the idea of not stepping outside of your comfort zones but I think its okay at least sometimes because we still need to warm up and enjoy ourselves whilst creating. So for the painting I decided to paint a person because that's my guilty pleasure art and I used a bunch of fun colours because that's what I wanted to do. It's sort of unconventional but I was going for fun not perfect and then to take it a step further I decided to make sure that I didn't paint a single straight line on the piece, everything had to be wavy and flowy.
In the end I was really happy with the final product because I had fun and made a mess and it developed my thinking. I also really enjoyed the clean up and thought I would include pictures of my messy hand and the wipe I used to clean because I thought it was beautiful and piece of art within itself.
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