Top Artifact #11
For this artifact I had to sort colors into various categories and then explain why I sorted them that way. I liked this artifact the most because I really like visual arts and I have always categorized colors without noticing. When I was a kid I was taught warm and cool colors in art class and I think I have always kept that categorization for myself. I think this taught me that this teaching was something cultural.
I also liked that I had to reflect on how my emotions connected to these colors. I definitely didn’t realize that I had more of a calming connection to cool colors and more of a happy connection to warm colors. I think it showed me that since my house is mostly painted with cool colors I have associated it with calmness and peacefulness since I was a child which most certainly has a cultural connection. I think I have paid closer attention to the influence that colors have in my life since this assignment.
Top Artifact #5
This artifact required me to reflect on socially disengaged versus socially engaged emotions. I really enjoyed reflecting on my life through this lens because I do consider myself introverted and I think I do mostly rely on my socially disengaged emotions. I wrote about the Grand Mesa in Colorado, a place I lived close to for about half a year. Before doing this assignment I wasn’t sure what socially engaged or disengaged meant and felt that it likely meant something that made you push away from society versus rely on society. While this is close to what it means I was glad I was able to complete this assignment for clarification.
Now I’m able to reflect on how the ways I feel about these emotions come from my cultural upbringing. I was raised to become independent and I think this is why I gravitate towards socially disengaged emotions. Because my parents were in the military I often played alone or with my older sisters, and because my parents did not need me to get a job in high school I didn’t have to put others before myself at a young age. I think this assignment gave me the chance to pull these experiences from my past and connect them to a concept I’ve learned in class.