ART EXPLORATION #9 - Guerilla Art

This is a meaning quote that I find 

inspiring and empowering to the individual self:

If you never try, you'll never know just what you're worth. 

I want to venture this inspirational quote out into the world. 

  

I started to share with my most immediate and closest family members.
I daringly shared the quote on my brother's walls with washable markers.
 

Not many people write longer write in hand-writing. Have you notice? I suddenly had the urge to write in cursive. Here is its, nice and big cursive writing across his wall.

Reaction to my Guerilla Art

My fifteen year old teenage brother may not have been the happiest teen when he arrived home to find writing on one side of his wall. However, recording his reaction to reading this quote, he stare at  the wall in deep thought for a fair amount of time . I thought about the possibility of my brother being able to gain some confidence or motivation in pursuing something that he might have doubted himself in completing, and that this quote could have acted as an inspiration.  I spoke to him afterwards about the quote and he expressed a lot of grumpiness in his response of my writing in his room. However, he also commented "At least the writing looks nice. Maybe I'll keep it."  Living with my 

 brother all my life, I interpret this response as a sign that he accepts this piece of art that I have created spontaneously. I feel extremely proud that my brother did not demand to wash it off his wall because this is a signification that he likes the piece. Perhaps one day when he's feeling incompetent, a glance at

"If you never try, you'll never know just what you're worth"

will give him another outlook on his abilities to success. 

 The urge to go further with my Guerilla Art

• I had just went out and purchase a take-out of Chinese food with Mixed Greens, Grilled Chicken and Rice. As I stood in an elevator waiting to get to my floor level, a lot of idle time was spent. I had the urge to venture out to the community and share this quote. I took out a piece of paper and jotted the quote down. However, I lacked the stationary materials to create artwork or at the very least, make my message stick on any surface of the elevator. Desperate for tape or a post-it note, I thought "what would make this meaningful piece of paper stick?" 
• I scanned all that I had on me and I desperately took part of the rice from my meal and create a piece of art to the message. The rice made the message it. 
• If you never try, you never know just what you're worth. 
• Who knew the value of rice can also act as temporary tape? I guess this adds values to the worth of tape in my eyes now. This certainly brings a new outlook. Hopefully, the next person whom came across the message was able to take away a reflection as meaningful as the perspective I've seen. 

ART EXPLORATION #10 - Community Arts Project

Speak Against Racism:

Our Logo

We are a group of students passionate to make a difference on the social issue of racism.
Mission
Our objective is raise awareness about racism and racial stereotypes going on in our society. We have proposed a project that may be of interest to stakeholders and students to reduce racism on campus as well as raising awareness for the services available in their community. We have created this interactive online community for people to share, comment, and give advice and support on experiences of racism as well as a list of online resources to seek help.
Purpose
A healthy growing community involves the well-being of its people – to have mutual respect for on another regardless of race. Therefore it is most important for each individual to reflect that we all come from different backgrounds and all have a different story to tell.
With the existence of racism still evidently around in our society today, despite the efforts of fighting against it for many years in the history, we continue to live in an environment where main causes of racism are not reflected by humanity. The social world continues to fed on stereotypes, lack mutual respect from various race and ethnicity groups because of unfamiliarity of the nature of its differing cultures from their own or simply selfishness.
As students, the Ryerson Campus is our most immediate community. We want to invite students, teachers and their families within the community to involve themselves in our ultimate goal to make the environment we live in a better place.
Vision
What can we do next other after our awareness is raised about this social issue? Our ultimate objective is to take the next step from simply raising awareness and advocate for others by bringing possible sources of solutions to support those who may encounter forms of racism, whether it be from the cause of stereotypes, unfamiliarity, environmental factors or selfishness of humanity.
Taking Action

Our Big Idea - In action

Our creation of SPEAK AGAINST RACISM stickers is our first step to raising awareness that racism still exist in our world today. In several urban elements around campus, stickers with a quotation from famous thinkers are placed, inviting to a reflection about issues on racism.
On the sticker, there is a website in which individuals can have access to a place to share, vent and outsource their emotions and feelings anonymously on the web about this social issue. This is a place where students, teachers, parents or anyone in the community can SPEAK AGAINST RACISM and express their shady views of this social issue in the perspective of each individual who has a want or need to share.
Join Us
Everyone has a story. From hearing about one’s story, this puts us in the position to consider their viewpoint. We believe that each individual has a right to SPEAK AGAINST RACISM and share their story. The individual self only knows best how they feel in their skin.


“You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view – until you climb into their skin and walked around it.”