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This year was unlike any other and yet I still feel like that is an understatement for what <\/span>has happened in 2020. The deaths of Kobe Bryant, Pop Smoke, Chadwick Boseman, and Ruth <\/span>Bader Ginsburg, barely even recap the year. 2020 will forever be remembered as the year the <\/span>world shut down. Covid-19 completely disrupted our daily lives and also ended others. 2020 was <\/span>tragic.<\/span><\/div>\n

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In the midst of a pandemic, we were all mandated to take classes remotely. While stuck at <\/span>home for the entirety of my Sophomore fall semester, I was tasked with creating this final art <\/span>project that encapsulated all my notes and thoughts that had occurred in this class. I thought to <\/span>myself, how was I going to do that, and let alone manifest my thoughts into art. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Well, the idea of my project was born just a couple of classes in. Listening to composers <\/span>such as Igor Stravinsky and Claude Debussy in class and reading reviews of critics made me <\/span>wonder if the class of Experimental Arts was all about listening to what people thought was <\/span>trash. Over time, this idea developed into the reception of the artwork being trash and not the <\/span>work itself. I was so fascinated by this idea of trash and how I could relate this idea to today.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Going back to the beginning of the pandemic, there was nothing to do but yet it seemed <\/span>like everything was going on at the same time. All I could do was watch Coronavirus Briefings, <\/span>watch US outrage over racial injustice, and just see and hear all the negativity that surrounded <\/span>the United States. Essentially, everyday I learned something new, read something different, and <\/span>heard different views on the same topics, and it made me realize how much I hated politics.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I never felt strongly about being a Democrat or Republican but about <\/span>what is right and what is wrong. The line can\u2019t be blurrier than it is right <\/span>now. And that\u2019s what I hate. Everything about right or wrong became left or right and that\u2019s not <\/span>the way things should be. Ultimately, 2020 showed me how trash politics are.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Enter Dada, Marcel Duchamp\u2019s investment into the future, the World Wars, and the <\/span>Great Depression. Those people, events, and movements shaped my project about the 2020 <\/span>Pandemic and my belief that America could be better. Like today, those events were new to <\/span>everyone and no one knew how to deal with it and Marcel Duchamp had envisioned a better <\/span>future because the present just wasn\u2019t good enough to understand his art. Seemingly I checked <\/span>off every box for this project: the transformation of my thoughts and also the connection to this <\/span>class. The only thing I didn\u2019t know yet was the how. How was I going to present my ideas?<\/span><\/div>\n

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For this project, I decided to challenge myself and take on this topic of politics as trash. I <\/span>thought of doing videos or maps, but, ultimately, I decided to write a kind of political commentary or <\/span>journal. I didn\u2019t want to cover this like it was news, I just wanted to share what was going on in <\/span>the mind of a 19 year old who, in his first election, had to choose between Donald Trump, Joe <\/span>Biden, and Kanye West for President. <\/span><\/div>\n

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With writing, I felt like I had complete control of my direction and tone. I just wanted to <\/span>expose the true reality of the world we live in today so I wanted this to be as radical as it could be <\/span>like one of those manifestos we read in class about art. The goal was to expose that the politics <\/span>people believe in are not what they\u2019re supposed to be. I wanted people to feel triggered that they <\/span>had to hear the opposite of their beliefs and I wanted them to realize the truth that 2020 revealed. <\/span><\/div>\n

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But I couldn\u2019t. As I started writing this project, I wanted people, off the bat, to feel a <\/span>certain way by writing too far left or too far right, but I couldn\u2019t bring myself to write things I <\/span>couldn\u2019t take seriously or didn\u2019t truly believe. I felt defeated in a sense because I couldn\u2019t quite <\/span>do my project the way I envisioned it. I never knew this about myself. I never knew I had <\/span>difficulty in writing how I wanted to, but it happened. Ultimately, I had to go in a slightly <\/span>different direction. However, something about experimental art occurred in my head. I learned <\/span>that artists don\u2019t have a vision of creating trash, you actually can\u2019t create garbage, which was <\/span>what I was trying to do. In the end, the process proved difficult but I still really liked how this <\/span>ended up. <\/span><\/div>\n

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My message became that we live in trash because our politics are trash. No help is <\/span>coming in 2021 and I wanted people to see that the future is the key to our society\u2019s success. The <\/span>political victories or losses meant nothing when the society around us is not all on board. I am <\/span>not the most politically informed person out there and you may not like what I have to say. I <\/span>don\u2019t agree with everything I wrote. I just wanted to provoke a certain response where people <\/span>can kind of hopefully see what I see, that everything is trash. I wanted to show there were lots of <\/span>underlying issues to the biggest issues of 2020. My mission is that I hope you don\u2019t like my <\/span>project because you don\u2019t like what I wrote. If you hated what I wrote, mission accomplished. <\/span>But my project is not trash, your reception of it is.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I think people may have a hard time digesting that change isn\u2019t coming because their <\/span>political candidate won. People have been trained to believe in politics being the change but that <\/span>is far from the truth. Nothing will get better anytime soon if people don\u2019t open their eyes and see <\/span>what\u2019s really going on. We all need to realize that WE are the change and not them. It is only <\/span>when we change ourselves that we see real change. I hope to have people realize this so that the <\/span>false hope they\u2019re feeling now can become real hope in the future. Overall, politics are trash, <\/span>and as a result, America is trash. If you expect 2021 to change that, you\u2019re in for a long year.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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