El Anatsui Portrait

Soon I will be creating a piece of art work that will be placed in a national Museum of art. My Portrait will follow around a philosophical view that I have. Simply put, "The world wasn't made in black and white, man made that" is what my theme will be for my barriers piece to go into the AGO. The barrier that this philosophy creates is the inability to see situations for there true nature. They also make it so you cannot see yourself properly and encourages bias and irrational thinking. This view will be represented through black and white paint splashes making the piece hard to see through, accept where it lets you. The splashing of the paint also reflects the erraticness of the persons perception. This effects me personally because I like to fill my life in black and white. I like to make a bad and good out of actions and it makes it difficult to understand all aspects of a situation, when you are focused on only the morality of the situation. Letting yourself get bogged down by moralities can sometimes be a hindrance. In cases when there is to much morality to consider, you should just follow your heart. Hitler is an example of over morality. Wait one second, I am not saying the Holocaust was a good thing, just that Hitler got so twisted in morality he couldn't see the truth. Hitler allowed for his sense of justice to kill thousands of people. Looking too closely to morality made him see this. He saw the Jewish people as an unseen terrorist that everyone would turn a blind eye to. If he looked back and saw the conclusions of committing such horrible acts he would have seen that justice isn't always the right answer. People also seem to only see a one sided justice, where there justice outweighs those of others. To see Hitler's point of view look here. All means of intent can be achieved in a logical sense of justice. The blindness justice creates to peoples perception of true right and wrong is a barrier to all that wish to follow a certain, specific path.