The Wizard of Art

For my first micro project, I began to think a lot about the things that I saw and did as I walked to class each day. When I first started thinking about it, each day I had walked to class prior had been sunny and bright topped off by the fact that I was really enjoying myself in this class. This lead me to my initial idea of something, bright, colorful, and cheerful. The more I thought about my 'journey' I began to think of different 'journeys' that we make every day and how we got there. One idea that came to mind was our constant use of GPS and mapping programs such as google maps. The word 'journey' can also have a different psychological denotation. For example we experience the journey of growing up as we attend college and begin to make something of ourselves. One interesting journey story that came to mind was that of one of my favorite books, and subsequently it's movie counterpart, The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. This also plays into the ideas of connotation and denotation with its well known political subtext. With all this in mind, I decided to approach this project explaining my journey through a colorful, cartoon-like projection of my journey to class with allusion to the Wizard of Oz