{"id":1103,"date":"2010-11-10T20:38:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T00:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www3.arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2010-11-10T20:38:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T00:38:39","slug":"art-and-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2010\/11\/10\/art-and-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Art and Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been drawn to art (no pun intended) since I was in preschool.\u00c2\u00a0 I remember I decorated a wood tree that made my teacher think I was some child prodigy.\u00c2\u00a0 My Mom still has it, and by the looks of it, I think my teacher was simply trying to boost my self-esteem because my parents had recently gone through a divorce.\u00c2\u00a0 Whether it was amazing or not, this signified the moment that I felt like creating and knowing art was <em>my<\/em> thing.\u00c2\u00a0 At five I knew what I wanted to be an artist.\u00c2\u00a0 I wish I were as confident now as I was then about my future career.<\/p>\n<p>After a year in the art school at UofM, I decided that was not the path I wanted to follow.\u00c2\u00a0 My interest in art led me then to Art History, where I am quite content.\u00c2\u00a0 Recently though, I have a great interest Public Health.\u00c2\u00a0 When I enter the real world in six short months I hope to participate in some service work that blends these interests.\u00c2\u00a0 I believe the battles our generation must conquer are environmental and health issues.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I want to get involved as soon as I can to make my difference.<\/p>\n<p>I see myself playing out this tandem through the integration of art in urban settings.\u00c2\u00a0 The art can be of any kind; graffiti, urban gardens, and installations, anything to spruce up the environment and to integrate natural and unnatural materials into the landscape.\u00c2\u00a0 Art in urban setting makes so much sense; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure why there is not more of it across this country.\u00c2\u00a0 It decorates our world in a meaningful and powerful manner.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, I understand how some may see public art as clutter, but these materials would clutter another space, a landfill, so why not integrate them into our society for a purpose?\u00c2\u00a0 Public art generates self-expression, illuminates an area that was once shaded and inspires others.\u00c2\u00a0 In the upcoming weeks I hope to write about some places in the US that are merging art and landscape.\u00c2\u00a0 Look forward to it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been drawn to art (no pun intended) since I was in preschool.\u00c2\u00a0 I remember I decorated a wood tree that made my teacher think I was some child prodigy.\u00c2\u00a0 My Mom still has it, and by the looks of it, I think my teacher was simply trying to boost my self-esteem because my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}