The Art of Failure

1. In the article, Carlos Murillo and George Lucas both agree that art doesn't have failure when you need courage to create in the first place. As long as something is learned, that there is improvement that there isn't failure only bumps in the road. However Perry Chen talks about how he was once shy and scared to take a leap of faith, that it took a lot of time for him to be able to speak professionally.

2. I can easily relate to Chen, in that it's hard to put yourself out there, but once you do, even if you "fail" you can learn and grow and create a confidence from that failure.

3. Pushing boundaries and taking risks are what make art, art. There is a need to create weird, odd, or unpredictable things to make visually stimulating art that someone gets stopped by. The only art you can make without some sort of push is art that anyone could try to make. It's predictable to put fruit in a bowl and paint it in oil, it's not predictable to make a giant bowl with odd colored fruit in it the height of a child. But there is also not much context and concept behind art that doesn't push, only working with reality and observation, rather than imagination. Not to say you can't make beautiful observational pieces, but there takes creativity to make good work.

4. I believe I was affected by fear of failure more when I was in high school, pressed for time, with more on my plate academically. I don't worry so much about what others think now rather than when I was younger, but fear of failing definitely pushed me to go as far as I could in art and in class.

5. I would definitely explain before my class-year starts that they could come to me with any concerns that they had, that the classroom was an open space for everyone. I could try to use ice breakers of a communal group project that could connect them, and allow them to feel more open. Even if their fear of failure isn't about art, they should be able to express what is going on in their life.