Skype with Soule

Today, during our Social Sculpture class, we had an oversea skype with Ms. Sheila (our teacher)'s friend Soule. The purpose of connecting with different artists is that Ms. Sheila want us to get a sense of how community art is like. Soule works both as free-lance and with the community. She work voluntarily with the community , but at the same time, she can earn money by getting cases on her own. When working with as free-lance, she receives cases such as designing the costumes for actors and actresses. On the other part, she works with community opera, which allows her to get involved with improving and benefiting the whole community welfare based on good motivations.

Soule talked about how she was concerned with aesthetic when she started to learn art, but later, she found out that the most important thing is not necessarily the beauty but meaning or intention behind the art piece. I agree with what she said because I think an artist's intention is the inspiration of his/her art works. A piece of art does not necessarily need to be very beautiful or eye-catching, it can be as simple as a red dot on a piece of white cloth. Unfortunately, I'm still in a state that I concern with the beauty more than the intention when I am creating my art works...

Soule also showed us how she organizes her art portfolio; inside, she puts many resources that inspired her to design all the different costumes. For me, it is quite interesting to see what a portfolio looks like and see the actual design of the costumes. She also showed us some t-shirts that she made by stencils!
Just a random thought of my own, we can design our own t-shirts and sell it for charity purpose! :)