For our group project, The Diabolical Dabblers decided to be true to our group name and demonstrate or dabbling skills. All four of us have our main artistic concentration, but we also are talented in several other areas as well. For example, I act, sing, dance, draw, and write poetry/lyrics, among other things. We realized that we all shared this "dabbling" quality, and we wanted to express that through our project. But how? We thought it would be effective to express our artistic abilities through a medium which none of us considers to be our staple art form: photography. Using photographs, we portrayed our inspirations, our other talents, our interests, and our methods towards achieving our artistic goals. In this way, we leapt out of our comfort zones and used a relatively unfamiliar mode of expression to translate the ways we express ourselves on a regular basis. It was very interesting being involved in this process, because each of us accumulated our pictures on our own and then when we brought them together, we realized that each person's photos had their own themes and spoke to the class in different ways. I could tell that the class found the project intriguing because of the questions they asked and their reactions to the various pictures. My four photos (which I have included in this post) had the overarching theme of one of my inspirations, which is the set
ting sun. Three of them represent my main concentrations, acting, singing, and dancing, and they highlight
the peace and freedom I experience while performing in these ways and the processes involved in such performances. Most of the other photos my group members included in our project did not feature themselves. This made my photos stand out, but it also illuminated the differences among all of our artistic abilities, what they mean to us, and how we go about doing them. This project was really eye-opening for me because it allowed me to see that creative expression not only comes in many forms, forms that you might not always expect, but also that there are an infinite number of places from which people can draw inspiration, and art can be appreciated all the more when you realize that no one is inspired by the exact same things or in the exact same way.
ting sun. Three of them represent my main concentrations, acting, singing, and dancing, and they highlight 
the peace and freedom I experience while performing in these ways and the processes involved in such performances. Most of the other photos my group members included in our project did not feature themselves. This made my photos stand out, but it also illuminated the differences among all of our artistic abilities, what they mean to us, and how we go about doing them. This project was really eye-opening for me because it allowed me to see that creative expression not only comes in many forms, forms that you might not always expect, but also that there are an infinite number of places from which people can draw inspiration, and art can be appreciated all the more when you realize that no one is inspired by the exact same things or in the exact same way.
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