Day 15

--In my fresco painting class, we watched a (let’s call it) epic video about the start of art, and how people creating and recognizing images came about. It was highly dramatized with the musical background and a British host/narrator. Anyway, in this video, some of the ancient cave paintings were analyzed to determine how and why people began to make images. The solution that was reached at the end of the video was that people were hallucinating, and were simply putting these hallucinations/visions down in the two dimensional form. There were two groups very far apart geographically as well as time wise. One was the Sans people, who are from Africa, and the other…oh, well, I wasn’t paying attention that well. Regardless, the Sans people would set themselves into these traces and hallucinations through dancing, music, and chanting, which would lead them to having these visions. For the other group (my apologies for not paying super attention), would be deep in these caves for days. When our eyes deal with extreme amounts of bright lights or with a lack of light for a long period of time, our minds start to create visions of hallucinating something-or-other (colorful blobs, black nets, etc.). These people deep in the caves were deprived from light for so long, and had these visions. So there was the connection between each of these similar, ancient forms of art.

Here is my sketch page for the day. It consists of a sketch for a birthday card, leftover mailing stamp pieces, and a little inspiration from the film in fresco. I also played piano after, and started to write a new song. Creatively productive day, I’d say!