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**Wiki Assignment 2-Everyday Words of Art ** **Perceiving the extraordinary in the ordinary... ** **Before beginning this project, I feel that it is important to state that one can not go out and look for what I believe to be everyday art. It must come to you in a state of unawareness, as a surprise, and most importantly, when it is least expected. Therefore, this weekend will lead me to find a mysterious work of art that may not be detected by others, but beautiful to the eye of the beholder. **



Featured in this first work of art is my love, Reymundo Lariosa. Rey's background is contrived of Spanish decent from Nicaragua. As a child, Rey recalls a time that he was given a harmonica and this was his first true enjoyment of creating music. Only from then has his passion grown. Although the music that he currently makes is created with technology, the same type of talents are constantly being worked to produce his perspective of music. As he creates music through a program called FL studio 10, i began to think about the talents it must take to create raw music and all other aspects involved in producing your own music. As we listen to music, it is rare to think about how much feeling and ideas are singly places into the beat, tempo, lyrics, etc.

While looking through some of Rey's school work and papers/notes, i found lyrics and other coded notes that came to him at random, spontaneous moments throughout the days. This made me think how a poet and other song writers develop and create art. As concentration and dedication can be essential, sometimes art is created best and appreciated the most when it isn't planned or expected. So, while listening to his different works of art I started to think about the thought process and the development of a song.

Impartial to this instrumental, I began to think how lyrics to a song deviate the perception of the appeal of the art. Alike Booth, I found that this type of art is an exceptional example for allowing an individual to interpret art in a personal, unique way. So listen and enjoy the instrumental creation...but remember to keep an open ear towards the composition of the song. How does this song make you feel?? What do you think Rey was trying to portray in this instrumental?? What colors do you see?? media type="file" key="Sitar Prod by RL.mp3" width="501" height="38" align="center"

I asked Rey to depict how he came about creating this song and where his imagination was triggered.

REY: //Creating music is like writing for poets. It helps me relieve stress and express what i think and how i feel. When i create a chord, the sound of it makes me happy and I enjoy it. It is very fulfilling. Before i create music, I have to picture and imagine what shape the song will take. For this song, i pictured myself in Lower Asia/India playing a more hip hop style song with belly dancers. Basically, the image and the shape of the belly dancer produced this song and its appeal.// ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++   As my mom and I took a trip to the grocery store this weekend, I began noticing the abundant amount of Eco-friendly, plastic bags that shoppers use for multiple use grocery shopping. These "Green" bags are slowly by slowly replacing the plastic ones used at any store you visit. Whether you buy shoes at Macy's or Easter Candy at Walmart, the option of plastic vs paper is even now being replaced with eco-friendly/reusable bags.

Did you know that the global consumption of plastic bags is over 500 billion plastic bags annually. YES, THAT'S 500,000,000,000 PLASTIC BAGS USED PER YEAR! In other words, that's almost 1 million plastic bags used per minute. So this got me thinking about the acts of "Green" that our culture has been increasingly fixed upon. Evenmore so, the response to a decrease in litter and pollution. <span style="color: #800053; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; text-align: center; vertical-align: super;">As Arbor day is approaching us (and being a tree huger myself), I wanted to somehow connect this idea to nature. As I walked around campus, not only did I do a quick pick up and enjoy the beautiful landscape, but I noticed more than 6 beautiful trees with plastic bags in them. These bags were not singly placed in the trees, but the impact of this scene was overwhelming. These trees present a beautiful, aesthetic appeal to the eye; yet when a bag is stuck in a branch (dancing in the wind), the beauty is quickly dissolved. <span style="color: #800053; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; text-align: center;">In some way, these trees made me appreciate their artistic appeal that would be so much more evident without these bags. By carefully removing the bags, I revived the trees. So while you are walking around campus, take a second to look at the beautiful landscaping and, by gosh sake...PICK UP ANY LITTER YOU FIND!! <span style="color: #800053; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; text-align: center; vertical-align: super;">Connecting this art to the statistic I supplied above, all I can hope is that this fact will decrease with the help of everyone in the community. Start using Eco-friendly products and inspire others to do the same. Our Earth and the place that we live is not going to clean itself. We must work together to make sure that the beauty of our environment stays true to its nature. If not, nature and the beauty as we know it will soon dissipate and leave us with an environment filled with our own waste. <span style="color: #800053; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; text-align: center; vertical-align: super;">As Booth stated in the reading, art occurs in our everyday life; but it is our job to not look for it, but more so appreciate it when we find it. Don't go looking for it. Art can be found in many different ways. Find it, create it, enjoy it! It can be found everywhere around you. Even a bag in a tree may need a small bit of help to ensure that its pure beauty is maintained. <span style="color: #800053; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; text-align: center; vertical-align: super;">AND DON'T FORGET: ARBOR DAY IS ON THE 27th OF APRIL. <span style="color: #800053; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; text-align: center; vertical-align: super;">Find a way to get out and plant something new for our environment and maybe even contribute and restore the original beauty already found around us!