I've never thought of myself as a n artist until this summer when I joined MoMA: In The Making. I learned to express myself through words, colors, collages, and just about anything else. Art, I learned was something worth creating and appreciating. I found myself searching within street art or art in the galleries. Every time I observed a piece of art, I asked myself, what message is this artist trying to send? I realized that I admired street artists for allowing the general public to gaze at their art without having to pay $20, like in a museum. Within the pieces I have observed, I recognized that some artists were politicians while others were philosophers. A few ere shown to be rebellious by their artwork. People were not just creating art for the sake of creating, but to send a message across. As I began to create my own art, I found myself trying to do the same thing, even though sometimes I didn't know what I wanted people to know. When our printmaking class worked on Xerox transfers, I was inspired by the word 'nation' in my collage. Using that word, I tried to paint figures and colors that would remind viewers of 'nation'. My message might have seemed somewhat confusing, but I wanted people to figure out for themselves what my pictures had to do with 'nation'. As a viewer of art myself, I understood that it was more imaginative to look at a piece and think about what it may mean. This is why I didn't want to make the message in my art obvious.