WK7-Art Idea Essay-The Art of Place
Place is an important aspect of live and experiences. The place that you live creates your culture and the way you live. Place allows for a space where a person can feel completely confident and safe where they are. Place provide people with a reason to keep going in live. I feel like place is very important and with recent events, place has become a little different. Place is evolved by everyone's life and affects many aspects relating to all events in a persons life.
One artist that knew the importance of space was William Merritt Chase. He was stuck living in big, crowded and polluted cities and would escape to the places he felt comfortable in, Central Park, Prospect Park and the seaside on Long Island. It gave him a place to breath and give a wide open feeling, like he gave his paintings. These are the places where he loved painting and getting inspiration. It was the place where he could go to escape. Sarah Malakoff is a photographer and for her place is very important to her photos. What they chose to display and what they dont show is very particular. She has to have a clear perception of her space if she wants the quality photos she is looking for. Jane Jacobs, an urban planner, believed in in her views and made it possible to cancel the Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have ran through what would later be SoHo. She knew the importance of the space and place that she was fighting for.
Place has a very different connotation to it than it use to before the Coronavirus hit our globe. Place use to be a physical space, now it has become a virtual one. That is a very big change compared to what we use to know. This new normal is now very isolated and lonely. A lot of people have struggled with this. You cant focus on the negatives thought but that will not help your situation. You can look at the positives, like now you have time to work on yourself. Our area of place has changed. Now our place is consistently home, but we have adapted and come up with solutions like zoom. These alternatives have really heled people stay connected
Place is going to forever be changed because of the Coronavirus. I think careers will have more virtual aspects and family and friends will communicate more through technology. We will get use to doing many things through technology. That is alright though because humans adapt. Whatever happens, people will always find a place where they feel comfortable. I know I have found new places where I feel safe and comfortable.
