Listening to Rebecca's speech is very inspiring. Besides learning for her practical attitude towards job hunting and connection building, I also remembered again how important the reading is, especially reading for fun. In her speech, she emphasizes that writing an art critics should builds an bridge for the public to explore the art word and help them to understand the art piece. In this way, public should feel fun from reading those materials, which reminds me that for recent years I have just read for information and skills, and I seldom just read for relaxing.
With different mental status, the reading experiences can be very different. For example, the first time I read the Catcher in the Rye for school's assignment, and I read it as doing an observation or a research. I searched many materials about the culture in the middle of 1900s and tried to dig out some evidence from the book to prove my thesis of my book report. However, recently I just read this book again, procrastinating on my other homework. I felt I'm a good listener, listening quietly and carefully to Holden Caulfield. At first time, I felt the same way as Caulfield does: after reading this book, I want to make a phone call to the writer. The book is building a bond with me.
As I retrospect on my art works this semester, I noticed that at some moment I was making a project for a show, for a job, or even for my CV, but not for myself. I do have a very strong enthusiastic attitude, but I feel at some point my passion is just for the fame not for the art: I want to be famous instead of I want to be an artist, a vain and vague cloud in the air. I need to keep reminding myself: peaceful and down to the ground.
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