Weirdos

Artists are a bunch of weirdos. Period.
I did not state that without any solid reasons. Artists do things we ordinary people can't understand, but still seem admirable to us. Weird.
Since we will be talking about artist for this week, I might as well reveal a little bit of my own background. My parents are both graduate from Malaysia Institute of Art. Which leads to me seeing and meeting all sort of artists since I was small. I have met artists more than any kind of people. None of them are normal, in a way we non-artist people perceive as abnormal. Like my dad, he loves collecting all sort of old things. My house is full of these old weird things, which he thinks that all of them are valuable. He works as an art teacher now at his own at centre. What I find him different from other people is, he don't teach to really earn money. His art teaching fees is simply the cheapest in town. In his perception, art is a form of education and something which people will enjoy doing it. And education should be affordable to everyone. Which explains why I am poor. Sigh.
After all those nonsense talking, lets move on to talk about Mr. Tan Zi Hao. Being surrounded by arts for more than 10 years, I can say that his works are undoubtly very creative. I liked his installation art where there's three snakes and sulphur surrounding them. That was truly a masterpiece. His way of fighting and expressing people's voice through art has impressed me.
After seeing all the artworks he showed us and listened to his talk, I am more convinced of my own perception on artist. They are all weirdos. I don't mean it in a negative and offensive way. They are weird in a good way, which we ordinary people would not understand. That is what I learned from that day's talk.
Every artists are weird in their own way, and weird is beautiful (Gary, 2015).

The Art of Crime

Hey there its your best friend Gary again and I know you're reading my blog again. I know it. I'm watching you.
Okay so I did not write any post last week cause I was too busy that I have forgotten it. Plus I can't recall any topics given to write about last week so, I'm sorry.
This week we talked about dances, visual arts and crimes in Malaysia during lecture and tutorial class. Although we cannot see the bond between those topics but they are closely related to each other, somehow. I will be focusing on Malaysia artwork cause that's the assessment given and I will not do anything beyond the given task. Cause I'm lazy as fuck, to be honest.
First thing first, what is Malaysia artwork?
To me, Malaysia artworks are every kind of artwork created by Malaysian. It doesn't matter what kind of work it is, what is the content of the work, who is it dedicated to, where is the origin of it, and why is it created. Any form of artwork done by Malaysian, is a Malaysia artwork. In my opinion, only a true Malaysian can create Malaysia artwork. If you consider yourself as a Malaysian and you create arts, YOU, are creating Malaysia artwork, and you're a Malaysian artist.
The next question given is, what event is so significant do you think we should feature in Malaysia artwork?
My answer may sound ridiculous but that's what my brain told me to write. In my brain's opinion, ALL and ANY events that's happening or happened in MALAYSIA should be featured in Malaysia artwork. It doesn't matter if the event is a huge one or a itsy bitsy tiny little event, as long as it happened in Malaysia, then it can and it should be featured in Malaysia artwork. Sounds ridiculous? Who cares. That's my opinion! Malaysians should embrace our own culture and society which includes all events happening or happened in Malaysia. I really think that all events could be featured in a Malaysia artwork, as long as the artist is interested to the particular event. So, why not? Creating Malaysia arts based on crimes, black magic, dark side of the politics, stupidity of some ministers, assets of our Prime Minister, and bla bla bla okay I'm going too far.
I don't think I have to answer the last question which is "Is it the responsibility of a Malaysian artist to create a Malaysia artwork?"
DEFINITELY YES! As I have said above, any form of art done by a Malaysian artist is a Malaysia art. So this question is quite meaningless. YES. YES. YES.
To conclude my writing, anything, including any events could be turned into arts. That is the beauty of art. There are no rules and restrictions. Nobody can control what kind of art you're creating. NOBODY. (Except if you did some artwork which insulted our PM or his beautiful wife, then get ready to be jailed.)

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