Interview Responses

Interviewing three different people gave me a few surprising results. One surprise was how similar some of their responses were. I interviewed my coach, a fellow senior, and my sister who is twenty years old. I asked each of them three questions that each sparked very thoughtful responses. I asked each of the three about the habits of people today. My coach said that today, people are too obsessed with technology. Everywhere you look, there is some one who has some sort of technology attached to them. She even said that if she forgets her computer at home, she feels as if she does not know how to go about her daily routine without it which shows how dependent people are on their cell phones and computers. She also mentioned that people are finding expensive ways to deal with stress and no one can really deal with stress naturally. My friend's response was kind of similar in that he mentioned that he thinks humans are constantly moving and cannot enjoy what is happening at that moment. Humans are way too overworked and need to look at their life more. My sister talked about how she thinks humans today have been very open with their lives and now talk more about things like sex. She also thinks that nothing is private anymore for humans. When I asked about whether abstract art or realistic art is more important to them and what speaks the most to them, they all said that they loved realistic art much more than abstract. They said realistic art is much more challenging and you have something to compare it too. Finally, I asked them about where the sculpture would most fit in and they all said not in a natural environment. It needs to be where people are constantly moving around it.

When I think about the responses I received about the habits of humans, I was not surprised. The funny thing is is that all the people I interviewed knew that what they were doing was a bad obsession or habit to get into, but it doesn't stop them from still being obsessed with technology or constantly moving. I think that is interesting that we, as humans, know something is not natural or healthy, but we continue doing it because we cannot stop. I was surprised, however, with the fact that everyone likes realistic art more than abstract because I thought at least one person would have picked abstract. I completely agree with them because I love realistic art. Realistic art shows how difficult it was to make because an artist can take something that is real and make something so precise, it looks like it is real itself. Finally, I probably shouldn't have been surprised that a modern human sculpture cannot be put with nature because I guess I liked the idea of our sculpture being by those trees near the school. I suppose that putting it there would not represent a modern human because we are not one with nature anymore.