Hannah's Portfolio

My progress on my new goal is not the best. I have been responding louder when prompted, but I need to work on responding as soon as I should be, because my class often has to be told twice to respond.

I am the most proud of my science L3 model from the first unit, because I think I fully explained all the concepts we learned during the unit. Although, my writing could have been more concise, I incorporated all the things required in my model.

My biggest challenge originally was reviewing well, I know this because I wasn’t doing great on my 3 for 3s. However, as of now I think I have improved on reviewing, as my scores have been improving, I hope I can keep being consistent with my 3s.

I prepare effectively for class and I collaborate well ,am positive, and reflect to improve. However, I think I can participate more fully by raising my hand more to answer questions.

I learned many new things during this unit of learning, and not just grammar and vocabulary. This unit inspired me to think about the power that languages have. Languages are not just a way for people to communicate, they are a bridge to express ideas and create shared understandings. Languages are also big parts of the culture in which they are spoken, and when speaking different languages, people often seem to embody different personalities. This is due to the different “feelings” that people get when speaking different languages. When people fluently speak a language, they form a special bond with, this language now possesses emotional meaning as well just simply literal meaning. This is sort of like connotation and denotation, which is another area that I have learnt a lot in. For their definitions, connotations are the emotional attachments to a word, and denotations are the dictionary definitions of words.

In the artifact above, I have demonstrated my understanding of connotation and denotation through annotating the paragraph. I put denotations for most of the words, but what truly demonstrated my comprehension of these two concepts are 2 points (vague or weak word choice). The first word that I think an unsuitable word choice is “designed”, designed gives a negative connotation, because it makes the alien seem like a machine programmed for a specific reason, and only for that reason. A better word for designed would be entrusted, showing that the alien is a reliable and humble servant of the power that sent it. The second word choice I originally thought was unfitting was map, and I thought a more suitable word would be devise. Because, map is recording information that already exists, and devise is to create. However, I now understand that map is a better word choice, as the information in context already exists.

I believe that an exhibition can influence our ideas and experiences, but in cannot fully destroy or create beliefs. Beliefs are formed over time, from the repeated realisation of an idea, so I theorize that it would be impossible to completely form or destroy a belief. What an exhibition can do however is to plant the idea of a new belief, cause doubt to an old belief, or strengthen an existing belief.

The picture above was my original thoughts about the answer to this question, and I do think they are right, but I feel that they do not completely express what I want to communicate. For the lesson about how artwork always has artistic intentions behind them, I think that is more of a belief. Even with the artwork that taped a banana on a wall I think it had artistic intentions in that it questioned what was considered art, and it also proved that people would be willing to pay for anything made by someone famous, sort of similar to Banksley’s concept. It also strengthened the my belief in that you can learn a lot just studying different art exhibitions and fully experiencing art.

For how these ideas, beliefs, and experiences are communicated to the audience, we would have to take a look at the curation and artistic intentions of the exhibitions. I still believe that most of the ideas present in an exhibition come from the artists in the form of their artworks, and that curators work with those ideas to create the immersive and awakening experience of the exhibition itself. I think this because, anyone could just put a bunch of random artworks together, but to really make everything seem coherent and the entire thing to tell a story or a central idea, you would need to really think and plan out precisely where each artwork would be.

The photo of the El Anatsui wrap up question, connects to what I said about artists bringing ideas to an exhibition, and for El Anatsui’s ideas, it’s mostly centralized on thinking about artwork that you see and being curious, in addition to integrating his culture into his art. These ideas were probably seen by the curator, and worked with to present the world and the waves by each other, and the wall by itself (although El Anatsui may have curated himself). This placement makes me feel that the wall is placed alone, not just because of it’s huge size but also because the wall represents solidarity and the feeling of loneliness , whilst the world and the wave seem more about connection and unity.

For the paths of modernity wrap up questions, I feel like it is a good representation of curation working with artist ideas, because I feel like the artworks are arranged in the way of a chronological order almost, and it keeps the audience interested, because the artwork flows well.

For the paths of modernity wrap up questions, I feel like it is a good representation of curation working with artist ideas, because I feel like the artworks are arranged in the way of a chronological order almost, and it keeps the audience interested, because the artwork flows well.