Music #1

The main idea that guided my artwork for this piece was my inquiry question which is, “ How does music impact/ affect me?” I started by thinking about what materials I could use that connected to music and that brought me to the idea of using CDs. I thought about the specific ways that music does affect me personally and that brought me to the aspect of emotions which goes along with some of the types of music that I regularly listen to.

The different specific materials that I used to create this piece of art was a piece of charcoal paper which I glued onto a piece of wood so that it wouldn't be just flimsy paper so when I glued the CDs on they wouldn't cut through. I used charcoal because it connected to my inquiry question in that I was reflecting on emotions in music and I think that charcoal represents a sad type of emotion because it's not colorful which I usually think of as happy/ cheerful. I chose to use broken CDs because I  think that those connected to my inquiry very directly,  CDs -  music. The reason why the CDs are broken is because the subject in the art piece is sad and depressed and kind of broken and I felt like that showed how the CDs are broken and affecting the human subject.

Before deciding what I was going to create as my final piece this idea of music bringing emotions to me I had had a slightly different idea beforehand. My idea beforehand idea I had been thinking of was to break CDs and show the energy that that took. I was always thinking about doing something with emotions but at first, I thought I was going to do an energetic/ angry/ hyperemotion with broken CDs,  but then I decided to do a more melancholic sadder emotion while still using broken CDs as one of the main materials.