Art Gallery of Ontario~

I was in desperate need of inspiration. This summer I would have been decorating a couple of my friends rooms with some sort of paint job, and helping a friend design his company logo. On top of that I had be asked to design gaming equipment exteriors for the owner of a game store near my house. He had his own pet project of making fighting pads for gaming systems and he needed a print for the pad. In order to find the inspiration, I chose not to wait around. I invited a couple of my friends to come with me to the Art Gallery of Ontario or the AGO. Early that morning I met up with Luna and Ella at school. We then bussed to Kennedy Station to meet up with Melly. When we all arrived at Eaton Center a shopping mall down town we met up with Jam and her friend Andy.

We shopped around for what seemed to be ages in search of a gift for J.Liu since we were going to her birthday party at the beach the following week. It was a very silent journey since Jam and Andy did not speak with Ella and Luna at all. They did not know each other that well. I did not want to bother Jam either since she seemed busy talking with Melly and Andy most of the time so I stuck with Luna and Ella, which I had always talked to. When it came time for lunch we all agreed on getting J.Liu a shocking game since it was so different from anything anyone else would get her. Arriving at Mc Donald''s Luna ordered a quarter pounder meal and I ordered a strawberry sundae with two apple pies. We all ate and talked about things that didn't really matter. Chris from Ella's church passed by and it was nice to see him again. Either way by the time we finished eating it was time to go to the AGO.


Arriving at the AGO we walked through a rotating door. It was the first time in a while I had walked through one of those and it was fun. We got our free tickets because we were students of Toronto and we explored like crazy. The exhibits were amazing and I loved the place. It was like an explosion and overloading of ideas and inspiration. The Group of Seven had the largest collection and largest exhibit. This is expected since they were Canadian. They were one of my main inspirations since I was younger but I could never have done anything as great as they had. There was one art piece of a sink attached to the wall, and one of a pile of rocks onto of a pile of Cheetos. They also had a Tekken arcade machine as an art piece. It seems as if everything was art. Most of the art pieces were very dark and cruel. Now I understand that true art is very harsh and breathtaking because it is based on truth and thriving emotions. True art conjures up emotions and thoughts you would've never imagined. For a piece of art to generate emotion is what I had always tried to do. While at the AGO I studied painting techniques as hard as I could since I would be painting the rooms of friends in the near future.

Later on near closing time, Luna, Ella and I ran all the way up the spirally staircase that seemed to be endless to reach the third and forth floors during the last ten minutes before closing time. It was exhausting but it was worth it. We saw more modern art and things that really sparked my interest. When we left we went back to Eaton Center to go to Indigo and later on we all went home. This was somewhat of a slow day but it was fun. The lesson I learned today is that inspiration is waiting for you to find it, so you shouldn't be waiting for inspiration to find you.

Currently listening to: Lady Gaga - Paparazzi

down to earth~