Identity Board-How I see art

When thinking about Art, it makes me nervous. I always feel like an outsider when it comes to it. When I hear the word Art I immediately think, pictures, drawings, and creativity. Feeling this way is what developed my thought process of making this canvas for my identity board. The tape serves a purpose of a canvas on a bigger canvas with splatter paint on it (because I am a fan of splatter pain portraits), a picture that symbolizes me (my ethnicity), and a few words. The picture on the outside represents me being an outsider to Art, to creativity, and to my right brain. I used "expression" from the 8 studio habits of mind to describe the process of my project. I chose expression because this is ultimately how I feel, I took my feelings about art and placed it directly on paper. To take this post even a step further, I feel like this in my life sometimes. an outsider. Someone who is on the outside looking in. The world is a huge place and I am still unsure how I fit in. I am just living. Thats how I feel about art, It is a big community, and it is all around me but I feel like such an outsider to it that I am still trying to find my place. When thinking about the book “ A Whole New Mind” I found it interesting to know that the left and right side of the brain controls different sides of the body. Focusing more on the right side of the brain, it was said that the right brain is a savior, according to the first considers but to the second considers it is a saboteur. They also believe that the right brain is the repository of all that is good and just noble in the human condition. Although, all of that is hard for me to unpack, it makes sense. It is believed that people who are right-brained just see the world in a whole new light, and honestly I am unsure if that is a good thing or a bad thing. That is why I always just see myself on the outside of it all because it does not make much sense. Art is a form of expression in my head and in my eyes. I feel that the right brain is always full of expression. I feel that I can have so much to say and not know the words to say it. I feel like sometimes my right brain is trapped and has not reached its full potential to let loose and be free! I am ready for my creativity to take over, I am ready for my brain to reach its full potential because it excites me to figure out the things it would come up with and all of the impacts it would make on someone or something out in the world. Then, I could just maybe stop feeling like I am on the outside of this box.