Seeing The Art In The Mirror

Tag On Bear by artist Kid Zoom. Kid Zoom is an Australian artist who started out doing graffiti and street art. Recently he is gaining fame for his works and in 2010 had a big very successful gallery show in New York. This piece is actually from that show.  The hand portraits in the background are done with aerosol cans and show amazing skill. In the foreground is a stuffed bear that Kid Zoom tagged and put on a pedestal. This is a great example of how the art community is recognizing this art form as a legitimate part of art history and the fame that some of these artists are gaining.

Reflecting on this researched blog project assures me that I did indeed enjoy the journey. This project made me look at an issue, once I thought was relatively simple before I started, very much differently than what I expected to find. The issues on the views and feelings about street and graffiti art turned out to be much more complex, and in some cases very abstract. Each posting took me down a very different avenue to this universal issue; however each one remained relevant to the whole. Every article and posting brought me more insight into the images on the wall that I feel many people don't gain unless diving deep into a certain topic. Discovering all the different sides to this issue became not only an intellectual journey but an emotional one as well. This issue made me look at society and how everyday things are really controlled; intellectually it made me more aware. Emotionally, it sometimes angered me at what is valid and invalid; while also some parts made me happy to learn that as a whole we are not giving up, we can actually make a change if we really try.

This blog project, in my opinion, proved a more effective research trial than a conventional research paper. One reason is that it was an ongoing process that is never really finalized, so it does make you look further than what a regular limited paper would have you seek. The opinion base that is available and almost necessary in a blog also helped tremendously, for this is where all the information you read really has to be pondered on to make a statement. So this challenges the author of the blog more than what a paper would. All in all, the blog research project offered more opportunity to gain knowledge about a certain topic when compared to a traditional research paper. The last question I pose to my readers is: how do you now feel about urban art, and its place in this world?

Kid Zoom (2010). Tag on a bear. Retrieved May 6, 2011 from the World Wide Web: http://www.streetsandcanvas.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/KID-ZOOM-TAG-ON- BEAR.jpg.