Essay Part 1 (Please post both parts together!)

 

Jonathan Lubin                                                                                        March 10, 2024

Activist, Interlop & Pranksters Spring 2024                                            Doris Cacoilo

                                                              Kimberly Drew 

Part 1 

How do these readings connect to the themes and issues we have been discussing?

    There are many issues we are facing in the world that are affecting art culture in massive ways. The destruction of homes and properties due to failure to maintain healthy living conditions, people are suffering from poverty still in many countries, and we as people are to blame. We all have a complex figure and high mental compacity for information pertaining to the life changes we go through, and authoritative figures are going to be blamed while the generations to come have to endure the crises worldwide. We are connected to each other through emotions and the issues we face happening everyday are televised nationally. It has a mental impact on the people who are facing life changes within the economy, and it has left a strain of doubt for our people. The themes are very creative, but they usually consist of a geographic meaning or some sort of agricultural vibe striking the nation with its artistic view of the world we are living in today.

How can authors, historians and curators also be activists?

    Historians, authors, and curators are chosen within their guidelines. They have a choice to continue working through their image and art or stand up and face the realities of what’s going on in the world. They are self-aware of the consequences that come with becoming a activist and even though we are not living in those rough times people are still in danger. We are living in a ongoing crisis within the economy and it’s hard to fight when you are alone in the world. It’s better to relate to people to get the word out instead of doing all the work on your own, yes historians have done it on their own but what about curators and authors. The facts and research must be even to further the process of becoming an activist and spreading the word to our generation to come.

What moments in the Kimberly Drew book felt particularly pivotal and meaningful to you?

    The book itself, “This is what I Know about Art,” is self-explanatory. She’s already characterized as a beautiful artistic woman who is growing and blossoming into the chaotic world, we all live in. She managed to make her own path and give us knowledge based off her experience as an artist. People like Kimberly Drew are unique and refined. They make the world a better place with affirmative actions and sequences using the power of art, speech, and sign language. She is her own queen in a sense and has a very popular taste for fine painting and artwork. She is one of a kind and an extraordinary person.

How did these lead to Drew's activism?

    I’m positive she got tired of the criticism of being an artistic woman at the time and it led her to believe that she could change the world with her perspective as she did. She single-handedly created and published her own book novel about art and how she feels about the people who are criticized because of their beliefs. Her emotions are deeply effective in her book, and she chooses to strike the audience with her emotional creative perspective leaving you with mind blowing thoughts and a book full of life and lessons. According to Hall (2018) Kimberly Drew is learning artwork in museums to develop sign language.

What quotes from her writing stuck out to you and why?

    “I never want my story to be defined by a string of heartbreaks.” Pg 27. This quote stuck out the most to me because it was the first thing I saw as I opened the book. Everyone has suffered a heart break once in their life whether it’s losing someone, falling in love with the wrong person, putting your heart and soul into a valued item and losing it in the end. It happens to us all and that’s just how life is in a sense, you lose many important things in life, and you just must understand nothing will last forever unless you as a person want it to. Almost everything in this world has a purpose, it’s your choice to define it in your way or just to leave it as it is.