BIG IDEAS "Smile" by Yingting Li

My big ideas is "smile". According to the experts, smiling either to yourself or to others can improve your feeling of happiness. Different styles of smile illustrate different types of characteristics of people and we can also know how people feel from their smile. As for me, the most impressive  way for me to remember my friend is to remember his or her smile .

Making both yourself and the people around you happy is the most sweeties thing to do . Therefore, my big ideas about "smile" seems play a important role in people's life .

Big ideas by Yingting Li

Smile is my first choice of big ideas. I would like to record different people's smiles to tell others who they are and what personalities they are. Smile is the sweeties face expression to me . As for me , the easiest way to remember a friend or a lover is to remember his or her smile.

Friendship is the second choice of big ideas. Friends can use different ways to tell others "we are best friends". They can hug, they can shake hands, they can smile to each other, they can talk to each other. I want to use photos to record the memories with friends. Friendship is always the permanently important part of my life.

Happiness is the third choice of big ideas. " Happiness" seems so important in my daily life. Living in a competitive city, how to make ourself happy becomes very crucial. As for me , happiness is more important than money, reputation and so on. Food , music, a lover, a best friends can all become the source of my happiness.

 I want to use photos to record the sweet parts of my life.  It is the best way to keep the memory.

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Artist:   Michael Shapcott is an emerging artist from Connecticut. His paintings and illustrations take traditional portraiture and add elements of folklore and dream imagery, his main source of inspiration. His work is nothing less than powerful, inspiring, and emotional.

The first artwork is oceania . It is the 3rd in the “Onawa” series. It reminds me of the ocean and the energy of music. Michael Shapcott uses his pen to captures this portrait with the pure innocence and wonder here.From this girl's shinny eyes, we can see the hope and inspirations .

The white shapes in the “Onawa” series are symbolic of our modern day. Those shapes are joined by tribal markings on the women’s faces to express a melding of our tribal past with our technological future. Michael Shapcott   has felt that our human ancestry, our tribal history, and our roots in the earth are a part of us and influence our present whether we acknowledge it consciously or not. In the present day, we are very much in contact with technology and are building ever expansive and complicated networks of consciousness, communication and innovation with them as our tools. In the “Onawa” series, Michael Shapcott wanted the white lines and shape to represent waves of this new energy and the tribal lines, markings, and paint patterns to represent the “scarred” or “imprinted” history inherent within us. We are bringing all that we have been and all that we are into this community of new energy and he wanted the women in the “Onawa” series to embody that layered evolution in a hopeful, powerful way.

http://livefastmag.com/2010/12/rising-star-michael-shapcott/http://www.redbubble.com/people/michaelshapcott/art/4382645-2-dahlia

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