Expression

November 17th, 2003

Monday Madness
1. Have you started your Christmas shopping yet? If not, when will you be starting? More like Christmas creating ^-^
2. What are your favorite holiday goodies (baked goods, etc.)? I looooove all the cookies my mommie makes each year...and I love Christmas dinner, and cranberry sauce, and eggnog!! Eggnog, yeah! Candycanes, chocolates....yummmm....
3. Do you decorate for Christmas? Inside, outside or both? When will you be putting your decorations up? Hopefully both...not sure, whenever Stina wants to because they're her decorations, heh.

Daily Dirt
1. If you can make anything go away right this moment, what would it be? This stupid situation I'm in that in my opinion is pointless.
2. If you can go away right now, where will you go? To see my family.
3. Who would you wanna go away with? Well...I don't know.
4. Will it make your answer in no.1 go away? Nope.
5. What will you do if DailyDirt were to go away? Aww...then there wouldn't be so many fun things to answer every day. :(

Random Question
Which of the following do you think most influences a person to become an artist: desire, talent, practice, environment, or encouragement? Why? I would think desire. The desire to express emotion...seriously...because even though people can create art to represent a building or person or something...its usually to try to capture a certain emotion or aspect of life...where the artist has a desire to convey their opinion or feeling towards their subject and to share that with the world. An artists dream (well, at least mine) is to be able to create something and have someone look at it and say "wow, I totally understand that"...and truly mean it. Because isn't that what most of the world is looking for? Someone to understand them?

Comments

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Mr. Anonymous Nov 19, 2003

I liked your answer to the last question, but I was wondering…do you think any artist is satisfied that people get their work? I mean, really get it, like the artist intended? Do you think its possible for total clarification of an idea, and if so, who in your opinion has accomplished this? Your input on this subject would be of great interest to me.

Melissa Nov 19, 2003

Hello! Thank you! No, I don’t really think that most artists are satisfied that people get their work. Everyone has their own interpretation of things, in my opinion, and something that could represent pain for one person could represent love for another. It can be controversial, I believe. Explaining art is like explaining emotion, its pretty difficult. But I would think that any artist would consider any type of remote interpretation of their art by a viewer as a success towards their goal…to change the way someone thinks.

what are these lines for? Nov 19, 2003

who ha cha cha…..thanksgiving is just around the rivier bend! aaaa la la..just around river bend..la la la much more…just around the river bend, the other shore! can you paint with all the colors of the river bend…ouch the first stage organ of my digestive system is aching me.