Greta Heeb's Blog

april 1st 2021 Today I am starting a journey of a lifetime.  This is something I have always dreamed about and has been on my bucket list for as long as I can remember.  I feel as though it is something every person needs to experience, to push themselves out of their comfort zone and experience pain and suffering. I think it will help me appreciate how truly lucky I am in my life and how much others have to go through.  Today I will be heading out on my quest hiking the Appalachian Trail.  I hope to do the 2,190 gruesome miles through and experience the mind and body transformation of living off the land. To me, in this day and age, people are so used to having everything at their fingertips and living such a superficial life all under the eyes of social media, friends, co-workers.  I just want to experience what it would be like to be completely off the grid and not have to worry about anything other than surviving. Not waking up and worrying what...

august 30th 2021       Today was the day I was hired for the job I had always dreamed about.  It is a public school in New York City on the Upper east side where I will be teaching kindergarten through fifth-grade art.  It was a very competitive position and I feel blessed for landing it. When I went in for the interview I met a few of the other teachers and they all felt very nice and supportive, people I could get along with. And the principal was wonderful, she seems like a powerful woman who is innovated and truly cares for the students.  We talked about ideas on how to utilize the resources in the city for some of the projects and taking field trips to museums like M.O.M.A or the Guggenheim. The school offers a lot of money for things we may need and seems very well funded and willing to be flexible on creating a unique way for the students to learn about and experience art.  I am very excited to be working in such a well-equ...

My Five Year Plan I am not positive on where I’m going to be in five years, geographically but I hope mentally to be really happy with myself as a person and be surrounded by people I love, and have a fun job teaching kids art.  I feel like right now most people have a hard time knowing who they really are and what they want out of this life and I myself am definitely struggling with those questions as well. I know I won’t have it all figured out by twenty-five but thinking about it now finding self-happiness and love is the most important thing you can do when you’re young. People always say this is the time to be selfish.  By twenty-five, I want to have traveled to at least 5 countries and hiked the Appalachian Trail, which I’m planning to do right after I graduate. It will be like my own quest to Mordor like in Lord of the Rings and I hope to do the whole thing straight through from Maine to Georgia. Relationship wise I would like to be in a serious rela...

Reading this article doesn't surprise me.  I think that what Debord is saying is that in today's world we are so absorbed in other peoples thoughts and opinions on social media, television, radio that we can never decide for ourselves what true and false.  We cant even get a sense of what is really said or going on sometimes because we get so mixed up in everything we see.  Even with the parodies of trump, there is certain biased information that is portrayed as fact.  Pictures can be altered to the point that we don't even know what the original looked like and I think that goes for information as well.

There were many different aspects of my project I would have changed.  Some of the negatives people were pointing out were about the legs and the toilet and how a part of them was blue.  This could have been fixed if I had taken more pictures at different angles.  Some other things that were pointed out were at the top how it looked like an eraser had been used because the walls didn't match up. They also didn't know what the mushrooms on the ground were and said the saturation needed to be turned down.  Some people also said my body in the middle looked like it was hovering off the ground and that I could have used a shadow.  There went that many positive aspects of this piece.  It did have a surreal vibe and someone said the three orange objects in the front worked.  Overall, I was not very happy with this piece and I probably would have changed the whole concept if I could go back now.