Exhibition: In Sickness and Health
Everybody gets sick. Let's face it, its a part of life we just can't avoid. However, as intelligent beings we can try to prevent ourselves from getting the more serious and life-altering sicknesses such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. Through studying health, exercise, and the biology of diseases, we can help ourselves live longer, happier lives.
The Projects
As a biology and art heavy exhibition, many of our projects mixed together. For example, most of what made our exhibition visually pleasing was the numerous paintings hung up around the room, with many smaller more detailed commission pieces mixed in. As you entered through, eyes would be drawn to the lit table in the middle of the room with four computers actively showing interviews. These were our oral history projects and one could select any they wished by category. Each corner of the room specialized in one type of disease and nearby would be paintings on display relevant to that disease group. Through the walkway would be the biology room with mounted dissection cuts neatly on display in the center of the room. Further up was a live dissection of a fetal pig, an example of the dissection we worked on for about 6 weeks. Disease groups were again organized along the room and binders containing our interviews with researchers, professors, and scientists were available to read for everyone. Behind the dissections on the wall were our life maps, a record and hypothesis of our health. Outside the biology classroom were our healthcare info graphs and the larger healthcare paintings.
My personal works
Reflection
Exhibition this year was actually quite interesting for me. Leading up to it, I singled out one of my projects as my main work. I spent every opportunity in the art room working on the massive painting that was one of the four healthcare posters to be hung up in the eleventh grade commons. Obviously, this put pressure on me to create a well-done painting as it was going to be a permanent addition to the school and would have several viewers. Beyond that, it was one of the few projects I had enthusiasm for. While I did enjoy my other projects, nothing gave me more satisfaction than beginning class with mixing paint and finding that one special paintbrush to work on the healthcare poster. These small moments are what made exhibition special for me. In the days leading up to exhibition, I had to pick up some responsibilities from group members who were also very busy, forcing me to manage my time wisely. I also had to learn that sometimes minor mistakes are okay in art. When first painting, I had the impulse to fix every little mistake that showed up, however as soon as the time crunch came, I had to look over the minor problems and only fix the major ones. I also learned to appreciate the exhibition as whole. I judged it too far early. When the night of exhibition came, I realized ours actually turned out really cool, organized, and informational. Overall, I feel as though I spent my time really well this exhibition, and I feel I came away with a lot more than I expected to.