As an engineering student with an affinity for art – in all forms – I was really excited to have the opportunity to attend an art show in house. Art at a mere 100 ft away from my dorm building… What gets better than that?

While I’m not the art proficient I wish I was, I have developed my own style over the years. However, I learned a lot about the importance of planning – may it be spontaneous – through an art piece before going ahead with it. What I mean by spontaneous planning is having foresight into your vision, the reason behind your price, and the layers and textures and colors that will help convey your vision, while still making spontaneous decisions as you go – as lotng as they adhere to your vision. I think that these layer of planning really help a piece come together.  Deliberation makes a piece have meaning, even the artist’s art show placement was deliberate.

I was fascinated by the variety of material that the artist used in his pieces. These included door frames, pepper seeds, newspaper (off the streets of NYC), old paintings, and more. if you look at the image above, you can see the layer and variety of materials. The artist even said that he has used makeup for pigment before. The artist stated that he, “take[s] things and make[s] them art.” Rather than have junk laying around in the junkyard, he’d rather maker it art. I think that is a very cool concept.