I have always loved art - painting, drawing, really anything I can do to get my feelings on paper. It has always been my favorite subject in school and even though I'm nowhere near as talented as some of my peers, I still very much enjoy doing it. Now, comparatively, I have always hated sciences and maths. My dad, being a chemist, has always tried to explain my science homework to me. When I was younger I used to get really agitated and tune him and my homework out and just draw while he tried to explain things to me. When he noticed how much I would rather be doing art he brought me to the Boston Museum of Science, at about age 8.
Now, I know the Boston Museum of Science isn't really considered an art gallery or anything. Its not paintings and sculptures. But I thought of it as art and still do to this day. It might now be the kind of art that I enjoy creating, but it did have a slight mix of art and science that I thought was very cool. Things were constructed in a certain way and they were planned and crafted. Having things visible and three dimensional for me made it easier to understand, but also it made it seem more real. Walking through the museum I could see the art everywhere, even though some other might have purely viewed it as science. I thought about how much time and effort must have gone into the planing of all of the pieces, especially the ones with exact timing. It made me see more so how almost anything can be made into art if you have enough creativity. I'm not sure if it makes much sense to anybody else, but that was my most meaningful art experience because it showed me how art can be found anywhere you look, if you look deep enough.
That's cool that you can take a regular experience like going to history museum and view the things around it as art instead of boring history models. It's also interesting how even though you don't like science that much one of your most meaningful experiences was at a science museum and instead of being close minded towards it you were able to look beyond a science sculpture and see art. Not many people can look into just regular things and see the art in them so its cool that your able to do that.
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