Photo of the Week

Week Thirteen

Image Title: Museum Muse

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel t3i

Lens: 24mm Fixed

Focal Length: 24mm

Shutter Speed: 1/100

F-Stop: 2.8I haven’t always been a fan of art museums, or art in general. I used to think most art was stupid—if it wasn’t pretty or didn’t make sense I didn’t think it should be considered art. Even as a graphic design major, there was a lot of art I didn’t see the beauty in. But the longer I’ve been alive, the more art I have had the opportunity to see, the more artists I’ve met and worked with, and the more art I’ve been given the opportunity to create, the more I have realized that art isn’t about what something looks like—it is what it feels like.

Art is supposed to make you feel things.

Good things, bad things, happy things, sad things. I don’t care—that’s not up to me. Art is not about the piece itself, it is about how the piece interacts with its audience. It’s whether or not that piece shouts at you from across the room or if it distracts you from everything else around you. Art is supposed to speak to your soul in some tangle of a way that makes you feel alive.