Reflections

This class has taught me so much since day one. The minute we started playing the wind comes and blows, the class has turned into a platform where I feel safe to be vulnerable. As a foreigner in this country, it means a lot to me when I found that there were people who share the same beliefs or went through a similar experience with me no matter their gender, sexuality, age, or ethnicity. 

Being exposed to various artists who use their practice and unique ways of thinking to voice for social justice has made me slowly found my voice in my own art practice. I’m starting to recognize what kind of artist I want to be and ways I can provoke through art. 

I like that we were able to have a glance at the history of activism, seeing what people in the past had accomplished with small but perpetual steps and wills and how it has influenced the world that we're living in.

This class has shown me so many possibilities for achieving paradigm shifts through art and radical hope. Going in with very little knowledge about the every-day life of the Cuban people, the photographs in the Annenbergh gallery captured lots of subtle details about people's life in Cuba. I felt that I was so many steps closer to the Cuban people's heart because each photograph contains an incredible amount of emotions and deep sincerity. 

It was a pretty incredible feeling to say to my friends that I went on a field trip to another country. Seeing how artists dealt with waste and social corruption in ways I found so relatable and inspirational made me feel that this trip was meant to be.