ABC's Group Project

In the process of creating our group art project we began with the concept of music and its inspirational influence upon artists. Whether you use music to inspire a character’s actions like I do in my acting performance, or you are creating a type of dance that flows to the music like Sara, paint a portrait in which your brush strokes mimic the sounds you hear like Andrea, or you are playing a piece of music that inspires the way in which you play it like Christine.
Music is a powerful tool for anyone in the business of being an artist. It can affect your mood, your state of mind, and even your inner peace.
When our group met in Doheny Library we began to listen to songs on my I-pod. We came across the song “Home to Me” by Josh Kelley. As we listened to the lyrics and the peaceful, serene melody of the piece we reminisced on the ability of our art to be our comfort zone, our home.
This sparked the idea to create a music video to the song and show it to the class in hopes of getting some type of emotional response.
We looked on Getty Images and picked out pictures that would inspire an emotional response from our audience and that related to the lyrics of the piece.
When we finished the slideshow of pictures it gave off the vibe or idea that we can find home in the quiet moments of enjoying the presence and existence of people and the little things in our life. For example, the class seemed to respond to the picture of the human hand upon the elephant. This was interesting because it created a sensational response to many as they could imagine what that would have felt like. It made our senses aware of things we may otherwise ignore.
My hope is that by watching this piece people allow them self to step outside of the crazy world they are currently living in and take a moment of relaxation and peace. I hope that people slow down their world and begin to notice the people and the world around them. We need to slow down in life, because at the end of the day what matters the most is home; and what home means to us.
Sara then created a beautiful dance inspired from the music slideshow. We put the two into a split screen so that our audience could watch both the dance and the pictures. Andrea pointed out that metaphorically that was symbolic of the split we often feel in life between the crazy world we are living in and the place that is home to us, we must choose which side to focus on.