Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Self Portrait Performance

 





Through Hard Times Seek God

My performance is about how I feel about everything that is happening in the world. So there are a lot of bad things happening in the world. Things like school shootings, and children can even receive a proper education in peace. Some parents send their children to school and they don't come back because of school shootings. In this world, we can even enjoy a nice place or sit at a restaurant with peace of mind because we never know when something might happen. We can't get too comfortable in this world. Even if the area you live in has nothing terrible going on you'll be anxious, and overthinking about somebody else area. We are human, we care about our neighbors who we don't even know and who were born in another country. Today we are experiencing wars even though they do not happen in our country we are still affected by them. My performance is related to Yoko Ono because she talked about peace a lot and as it shows in my video, I pray that we can have peace. Ono dedicated her whole life to campaigning for world peace.

 "Activist for peace and human rights since the 1960s, a versatile persona and performer, courageous and unrelenting woman fighter, Yoko Ono still stands proud and strong after decades of misconception, misunderstanding, and unfairness. She has faced relentless criticism for her vision of peace, and her work as an artist has been overlooked and undervalued. Despite everything, she remained steadfast in her commitment to the fight for peace, equality, and human rights, and she continues to fight for what she believes in. I don't know if Yoko is Christian or not, but I can say that she has strong beliefs in favor of a peaceful world. I believe that one day we will find a world of peace and that it will be paradise. A world where there are no wars, no school shootings, no crimes, and nothing else that could affect us, and in that world we will find only joy. "It wasn’t uncommon for Yoko to draw parallels between spiritual and religious practices and artistic creation." I think she believed that the process of creating art was akin to a spiritual journey and that by engaging in it one could gain a sense of spiritual connection and personal growth. In other words, I think, she believed that the creativity involved in creating art was akin to the spiritual journey offered by religious practices and that the two were linked. Maybe, she believed that art was a way to access the spiritual realm and experience a sense of connection with the universe. The article about Yoko Ono is quite interesting. 


Quotes

"Ono truly believes that despite the rising terroristic activities, we are finally on our way to world peace, and she predicted that we will have heaven on Earth in 2050. If her hopes, aspirations, and dreams will come true, we cannot know, but only time will tell."

"Her work has always been an indivisible element of her activism and life-long mission of communicating with the world at large."

"But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it."

"The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled."


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