Create Your Own Adventure- Mikaela Gatewood

Prompt 1: Can you universally define art? Or is it entirely subjective? If you can define it, what makes something art and what doesn't?

Prompt 2: What roles do movies play in our lives? How do they influence us, if at all? Is there a difference between someone who watches only 4 movies a year as opposed to someone who watches 100?

Prompt 3: Can anything be a waste of time? Are there some pass times that are ultimately useless to us or does everything we do benefit us in some way, even if only a small amount?

Response to Prompt 1: There are lots of jokes about what art is. You can easily walk into a modern art museum and scoff at the seemingly scribbles on paper or the giant red triangle painted onto a canvas, wondering why it's in the museum at all. However, if it wasn't art, it wouldn't be in some place as important as a museum in the first place. In my opinion, you can't easily define what art is. While it's true that art, as defined by Merriam Webster, is "something this is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings", the definition gives room for interpretation. Each individual's idea of beauty differs, or what effectively expresses their ideas. You can't say what someone thinks is art is wrong, as they may think that it fits their personal criteria for art. And so while each person may be able to define what art is to them, there can never be a universal definition.