Throughlines:
1. Artists can be part of global conversations about important and relevant topics and issues by creating art that reflects there ideas, opinions, and stance on them.
4. Artists push the limits of their media and reconsider what can be thought of as art by creating conceptual art that is made to get across ideas.
Understanding Goals:
1. Site-specific art is specific to a certain place and holds meaning to the concept of the artwork and/or the artist . Installation art is made to fit into a certain place; sometimes to complement it. Installation art is built into a place and can also be taken apart and moved. Sculptures can be considered installation art. Conceptual art is made to get across and represent ideas.
2. Artists choose whether or not they want to voice they opinions on the issues of the world. Some artists think that it is their responsibility to create artwork that reflects their stance on certain issues, but others may to choose to express themselves through art without incorporating metaphors or ideas that reflect their views.
3. You can plan and create a three-dimensional site-specific installation by drawing preliminary sketches, drawings, and schematics that shows the scale and functions of the installation. To communicate and convey ideas about the concept of the shelter you can manipulate the structure and architecture of the installation as well as using different/specific materials. Another way to convey the concept of the shelter is to paint the surface with artwork that reflects the meanings and ideas behind it.
4. By taking apart old crates and nailing them together for a sturdy frame as well as using old cardboard for roofing and walls, a person can construct an aesthetically pleasing artwork with an attractive design as well as a functioning shelter.
5. Having a shelter is having a place of security where a person feels safe. A shelter protects an individual from the elements and allows them to have a place where they can rest. Not having a shelter means that the person is dislocated and always on the move, moving from one place to another, hoping to find a place of security to occupy.
6. Most people live in poor conditions and lack the addequate safety and protection that a shelter should provide as well as lacking essential resources necessary to survive.
7. All aspects of my context influence and impact my work as an artist, but ultimately it is my environment that inspires me to capture the beauty that I perceive in the world around me.
-Dmitry Willis
