In my opinion, I think that life can actually be one of the best expressive mediums for an artist. I feel this way because life is an endless amount of possibility and provides outlooks for what could be. An artist could not only express themselves through their own life in the way that they live and the things they do in their life, but the same thing can be said for animals and plants. Not only do these mediums allow artists to express themselves through them, but with the images of nonexistent creatures and beings, artists can express themselves in endless amounts of ways in which the mind is capable of thinking of. These mediums can be anything from a normal looking house cat, to a cross combination of an alien and a zombie with the face of a flower. The possibilities that life could allow for expressive mediums is endless.
For example, one artist by the name of Samuel Salcedo, expressed himself through the cross-combination of human faces and animals. He created the face of a person with bunny ears to resemble the feelings of a bunny and express the stress the bunny was experiencing. While next to it, the face of a person with bull horns connected, to express the rage feeling being created by bulls to help the viewer understand the feelings of these animals deeper and understand what their feelings would look like to a human being.
Although there is a fair amount of people who make changes that can be quite disturbing and scary to look at, such as this sculpture from Salcedo above, some artists tend to take a different route and create rather beautiful and astonishing creatures that are pleasant to look and admire. For example, this sculpture from a ceramic art display shows the protection of a wolf and his companion bunny. The sight that tricks the mind and shows how we see creatures being wrong, and they can be friendly, and protective of one another and accept one another into their life.
In my opinion, human creativity is the factor that differentiates the people that live in this world, and is what gives people the characteristic to express themselves freely. Therefore is would be wrong to limit the amount of creativity allowed in the world. Without creativity, most of the appliances we know would not exist today, it was creativity that drove people in our history to create and innovate things that did not exist. Creativity is what allows people to create images or creatures that drive our understanding of everything, from dragons, to the gods of Olympus to zombies in the apocalypse. Our world would not be the same as it is today without creativity and would not allow us to improve our world any further as well. Creativity is the driving factor of our survival and will continue to be the driving factor until there is no more creativity in the world.
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