John Zorn “Khebar”

My life and art started with the idea of perfection in mind, but as I continued my life experiencing beauty of diversity, I learnt that the way I was viewing this world was flawed.  After the realization, The hardship of adjusting myself into different cultural from mine helped me to grow more experimental not only in my personality, it also helped me in artistic ways. Continuing my journey as a foreigner helped me to become more open to the idea of trying without the fear of failure. I acknowledged that there was still a lot more room for me to grow and that obsessing over this shallow understanding of what makes something ideal was not worthwhile for my own personal development. It is this idea of letting go of my need to be perfect that I tried to convey throughout my journey, and that it is more important to learn from the process of creation than to marvel in the results of a finished product. Through working with the rest of my community, and learning more about the people around me, I learnt that everyone has their own idea of what perfect means. It is only through this epiphany that I figured out that this idea of perfection, or the  way that we are meant to perceive it, is a trap. Obsessing over this is the same as refusing to move forward, if one remains fixed on this idea of perfection then they cease to grow as an individual because they’re too busy chasing something that is unattainable. By letting go of this, I found that I had grown more open to learning and to trying new techniques in order to better myself not only as an artist or a student but as a person as a whole. While attending Parsons, I wish I can learn more about the world and how to apply myself within it.

 

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