My first experience with art came as somewhat of a mistake. I was one of those kids that was never good at much. When I was supposed to be getting into junior high school, my parents told me to try out for Media because it sounded easy and neutral. Thus I took black and white photography, a talent by default if you will. My inspirations include people and the world around me. I'm a junkie for portraiture and will often take pictures of people on the street who I do not know. I enjoyed this class because it taught me the depth and techniciality of printmaking. It exposed for me the complexity of street art and how much work and cunning it took. I learned to keep an eye out for different types of art in the city, and I began to be more informed about the processes involved in what we see everyday. I especially enjoyed when we visited Swoon and her studio, her wheat pasting was very elaborate and took enormous skill and effort. I found the stencil project very enlightening because it was something I had always wanted to do, but I never had the skill or the courage. Printmaking revealed itself to me as an art form that stands varying and questionable but is undeniably a part of everyday life.