Collective Identity

Art people are pretty cool. It’s hard to find so many random people that would never have been friends outside their interest in art. Of course you have you’re typical “art kids.” The ones with the paint on their jeans, maybe some piercings and dyed hair, sometimes kinda scrungy looking, but as a member of the art society, you know these people as more than just an art freak. Actually, these art freaks are pretty freakin awesome. As a class you develop a type of bond that most other classes can’t compare to. In art, we get to create our own social status, our own small groups that intermingle with other small groups until all the sudden youre talking to someone who you had no idea was so cool. There’s some art snobs too though. The people who think they’re hot stuff just because they happen to spend their entire day in the art room and they’re favored by the art teacher. But even the snobs can be good people too. As a whole, I think that the social status of the room doesn’t really matter that much. Everyone just does their own thing and it doesn’t matter what other people think of it. I worried about what other people thought for too long and I’m glad that I realized that it doesn’t matter. Ironically, I tried to alter myself and my art in order to coincide with what the rest of my class was doing. The rest of the class was trying to go against the grain but I don’t think they succeeded in doing so. I think that majority of the class just copied eachother and I understand that art is about copying and redoing and stuff but I think that a lot of people left their preconcieved notion of art for a not neccessarily more correct version of the art being brainwashed in the class. Am I saying that I think our collective identity is a bunch of brainwashed kids? No. But I think that there are many people who are like that. Overall, people love the art class therefore as a whole we are successful in exhibiting ourselves in a creative, fun, and hands on way.