Last Wednesday’s Rose Cafe session with GRF Sam Legasse was a lively conversation on how the modern and the primitive are defined and the implications that come with them, particularly in how they are juxtaposed. Because I didn’t have any experience with this before I appreciated Sam’s use of very visual examples and discussion based breakdown of these concepts. I enjoyed talking about the roots of these movements and how they certain people used them as vehicles for different ideas. This, above all else, showed that though one idea may dominate the times, artists constantly reinvent and put different spins and connotations on the same idea, adding to it and complicating the question of what it means to be human. It was especially interesting to me because I was able to learn and talk about the humanities even though it isn’t what I’m studying or taking any classes on.