Art How We Make It

I thought this assignment in class about sampling was very interesting and difficult in the end. I love art and any thing that brings out creativity, especially when it’s not so direct. What I found difficult was trying to have it not really make sense. My ‘collage’ had black and white photos in the background and small fragments of sentences on top of it. What I took out of this is that many things, objects; subjects seem so cut and dry and black and white, true and false, all with areas of gray. When words that do not particularity make sense are placed on top of all that, it shows that our imagination and creativity are what we make it, and no one can define who we are. I think that ties into appropriation because although those black and white areas will always be in our minds, it is what we do with it through our creativity that matters.