This
festival is visually stunning to me. It is a great example of how something can
be really spectacular if a lot of people can work together to create something
beautiful and meaningful. Thousands of people gather together and launch
hot-air lanterns into the night sky all about the same time. I think just for
this is worth doing just for the visual alone and the sense of tradition but it
also has a spiritual and personal aspect. The lanterns can represent a prayer
being sent or it can be the bad things floating away. Whatever view you have on
spirituality somehow something like this can make you feel like it must be a
really amazing feeling to experience being there.
Branching
from a statement that I made above that it is really cool when a lot of people
gather together to accomplish a common goal. I want to discuss scale and how
that affects a piece of art. For example have one guy randomly start dancing in
a crowd and almost none will even notice and the few that do will probably not
care in the slightest, but if half the people in a crowded area stop what they
are doing and start a choreographed dance. Pretty much everyone will notice and
take some sort of interest in it. Scale seems to matter. Another example is the
Mona Lisa. You see all the pictures of it online and it is a very well done
painting but when you see it in person and it is so small and you cant see it
up close and it seems to lose it’s wow factor. Is big always better though? I
personally cannot think of an example where a piece of art is only better as it
gets smaller. There very well might be though, but scale does play a large role
in how impressive people are with a piece of art.
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