Theory of Me

How do you understand the world and your place within it?

As a millennial, in my first semester of Alfred Foundations, in October, in week 7 of the Fall 2017 semester, in the Northern Hemisphere, in America, in latitude 42° 15' 15" North, in longitude 77° 47' 26" West, in the southern tier of NY in Alfred, at Alfred University, within the SoAD, in Studio: Research course...

I am a creator. I am similar to a little sprout, like a cherry blossom. I can only grow in certain places of the world where I can thrive and bloom. I am here at Alfred University to grow and learn about life and how there are many different branches to my existence. For example, like I am an artist as well as a dancer. I want to be an educator for the youth and teach them more about the world. Like every teacher that I have had they have helped me understand the world in some way or another and I want to impact others and help their world be a little more colorful. 

My job right now is to be a good student and be the best person I can be. In art class I am constantly questioning things and discovering new information that I did not know previously. In Studio Research I have learned that art and movement are much alike as well as how sound influences how you interpret art. I have gained a deeper understanding on what it means to be an artist as well as a dancer and how I impact observers in different ways. I never really thought about performance art being a combination of art, music and dance/theater which I thought was very eye opening. I never even thought about how much the arts overlap with one another. 

Personally, I think being a dancer as well as an artist is a very unique combination and gives me a understanding of what is means to perform art and create it. I think my place in the world is to create beauty and curiosity because an artist is always questioning reality and testing the limits of a pen and paper. A dancer challenges their emotional strength as well as their physical strength when dancing acting a part as well as showing emotional vulnerability for people to watch. 

Young children are always curious and constantly exploring their wold around them. Children have many first like first word, first birthday, first steps, first day of school and teachers help them with their firsts. I was lucky to have an amazing elementary school art teacher and she let her student's imaginations run wild in art class and let them be children and for it to be ok to be curious. I strive to be like that teacher. She was always nice and encouraged her students to get their hands dirty and discover what things are. I want to be the one to introduce kids to their first art experience because several years later I am here as an art student at Alfred University. 

My representation of Theory of me is a painting of cherry blossoms and a blue sky. I am still growing and changing and the place where I bloom is here in Alfred, NY. I am also in the image in a dance costume in my pointe shoes to represent both the part of me that is an artist and the part of me that is a dancer. The location that I took the picture is in front/inside Harder Hall because that is where I am doing what I love each day being taught by college professors that I strive to be one day.