During my first day working at Zeum I expected to merely travel to work, work, eat lunch, work, and then return home. I did not expect to be associated with a mentor group within the Zeum Masters' program. Although it appears long and tedious it is actually fun and is very productive. I feel as though I am learning many new things such as different ways to make biographies, clay animations, and today we learned how to make an interesting type of artwork. (image on the side)
Through our mentor groups we have discussed how we would like to tell "our" story, may it be some clay figures fighting atop of a desk, the time a relative did something intesresting, a famous event in time, or just what you did the other day. These groups help us elaborate our ideas or real life experiences so that we may effectively display them. Eli and Ari, my mentor group's leaders, are very helpful with finding out exactly what story we wish to tell and through which medium we want to tell it in. Through tasks which help us see what parts of our life or imagination we want to utilize in order to express the ideas. We are to tell these stories through multiple mediums. Such as an biography type video, clay animation, poem, and etc.
Zeum is neither an ordinary museum nor an Arts & Crafts workshop, rather it is both, a place where one's imagination may be stimulated, expressed, and even taken home. As a Zeum-Master I have discovered a multiple of ways in which stories may be told, how they are told, what they really represent, and how expressing them may show people how you really are, aside from your appearance. They get a chance to discover how you feel and how these feelings are seem in your songs, music, videos, animations, pictures, and/or etc. Although it may take a chunk of my time to complete these projects, mentor group projects at Zeum allow me to express how I feel and it will help my friends and me to understand myself better.
