My mask
Construction of Connection
By Cooper Machicek (Mok-ih-chek)
Socialization. It is the core of interaction with Earth. The meaning of life is to experience and enjoy your temporary yet eternal experience in the Universe, and in the unknown dimension travel after your life ends, and it is all controlled by our interaction with Earth. I am one of what we know 7.6 billion people on Earth, but many billions more who have passed, and trillions more who have yet to come. I have come into the world at a strange era for man, the Millennials are those who expect things to come easy, they think that everything is free and others bring it to them, and I have to live with this impossible-to-explain burden until the era ends. I have been socialized by my parents, grandparents, teachers, and classmates. It was difficult for me growing up to make friends; I had insane introversion. But one thing that I have been found to be born with, is the fact that I have Autism; Asperger’s Syndrome specifically, and I was confused to be socialized because nobody had realized that I had Autism, and they didn’t know how it worked until I was about 7. I never really had friends in elementary school, only everyone wanted to be my partner in assignments because I was literally THE smartest person in the entire school by 3rd grade! But that was the only reason I could ever be socialized and friended. I couldn’t speak to others, and I waited, but even when people ASKED to be my friend, I wasn’t able to understand, I imagined I couldn’t handle anything like it.
This mask project is meant to symbolize the Cycle of Socialization, the process of how a person familiarizes themself with others and the natural world around them. The Cycle of Socialization starts when you are born, and you are growing up in a world that you will follow for the next 75 or so years. You are first socialized by parents, grandparents, teachers, and maybe friends if you are very social. Then you get to the part called the “Institutional and Cultural” socialization, this is how you continue your life peers’ socialization actions toward your social actions and experiences. The next step you follow is called “Enforcements”, it is the process of being taught how the rules and laws of the society, and enforcing laws on a person. Some of the known things taught are the privileges you earn, the discrimination and persecution that comes with the world. The results of teaching a person is the, well, “Results”, where you discover all that you have learned and what you wish to learn, you decide what you are going to use those years of learning for; good, bad, change, or unknown possibility. The final process IS the actions you do intend to do; the “Actions” step, which actually leads off 2 ways, you can follow and redo the cycle by doing the normal, or decide change is the best path, and follow that into a new cycle, and make the world better. Or different.
About my mask... My mask demonstrates the action of how the world in the 3rd Millennium seems to... devolute. We seem to do worse since the world grows more in negative aspect. We get all these new objects and opportunities, but everything comes with a consequence, and we may let it take us! The world claims more victims as drug infectious, new diseases come into existence, and people are taken over by terrible thought that tell them... “kill to be happy again”! The world naturally spins what we consider “rightwards”. But devolution results in what could be imagined as “undone existence”, and the world goes back into the terrible molten wasteland of 4 billion years ago. Which in the future, imagined terrible accidents will result in that like the existing terrible dangers of 4 billion years ago, then 5 billion. Soon until 15 billion years ago when everything began, and the Universe is put into Infinity’s undo able change.
In conclusion, I believe my perspective of this project has not changed, but more of how I have realized how interesting, hostile, and complex this world is. This negative aspect always evolves with us, it gets worse, and it changes us. I can’t say much more about what I thought this project does, but I will say, God built our world, we change our world, the good empower the world, and the bad weaken the world... but we all become socialized with the natural world no matter what. Changing the cycle of socialization is an option, but I believe changing the process of the world does not exist.
By Cooper Machicek (Mok-ih-chek)
Socialization. It is the core of interaction with Earth. The meaning of life is to experience and enjoy your temporary yet eternal experience in the Universe, and in the unknown dimension travel after your life ends, and it is all controlled by our interaction with Earth. I am one of what we know 7.6 billion people on Earth, but many billions more who have passed, and trillions more who have yet to come. I have come into the world at a strange era for man, the Millennials are those who expect things to come easy, they think that everything is free and others bring it to them, and I have to live with this impossible-to-explain burden until the era ends. I have been socialized by my parents, grandparents, teachers, and classmates. It was difficult for me growing up to make friends; I had insane introversion. But one thing that I have been found to be born with, is the fact that I have Autism; Asperger’s Syndrome specifically, and I was confused to be socialized because nobody had realized that I had Autism, and they didn’t know how it worked until I was about 7. I never really had friends in elementary school, only everyone wanted to be my partner in assignments because I was literally THE smartest person in the entire school by 3rd grade! But that was the only reason I could ever be socialized and friended. I couldn’t speak to others, and I waited, but even when people ASKED to be my friend, I wasn’t able to understand, I imagined I couldn’t handle anything like it.
This mask project is meant to symbolize the Cycle of Socialization, the process of how a person familiarizes themself with others and the natural world around them. The Cycle of Socialization starts when you are born, and you are growing up in a world that you will follow for the next 75 or so years. You are first socialized by parents, grandparents, teachers, and maybe friends if you are very social. Then you get to the part called the “Institutional and Cultural” socialization, this is how you continue your life peers’ socialization actions toward your social actions and experiences. The next step you follow is called “Enforcements”, it is the process of being taught how the rules and laws of the society, and enforcing laws on a person. Some of the known things taught are the privileges you earn, the discrimination and persecution that comes with the world. The results of teaching a person is the, well, “Results”, where you discover all that you have learned and what you wish to learn, you decide what you are going to use those years of learning for; good, bad, change, or unknown possibility. The final process IS the actions you do intend to do; the “Actions” step, which actually leads off 2 ways, you can follow and redo the cycle by doing the normal, or decide change is the best path, and follow that into a new cycle, and make the world better. Or different.
About my mask... My mask demonstrates the action of how the world in the 3rd Millennium seems to... devolute. We seem to do worse since the world grows more in negative aspect. We get all these new objects and opportunities, but everything comes with a consequence, and we may let it take us! The world claims more victims as drug infectious, new diseases come into existence, and people are taken over by terrible thought that tell them... “kill to be happy again”! The world naturally spins what we consider “rightwards”. But devolution results in what could be imagined as “undone existence”, and the world goes back into the terrible molten wasteland of 4 billion years ago. Which in the future, imagined terrible accidents will result in that like the existing terrible dangers of 4 billion years ago, then 5 billion. Soon until 15 billion years ago when everything began, and the Universe is put into Infinity’s undo able change.
In conclusion, I believe my perspective of this project has not changed, but more of how I have realized how interesting, hostile, and complex this world is. This negative aspect always evolves with us, it gets worse, and it changes us. I can’t say much more about what I thought this project does, but I will say, God built our world, we change our world, the good empower the world, and the bad weaken the world... but we all become socialized with the natural world no matter what. Changing the cycle of socialization is an option, but I believe changing the process of the world does not exist.
Project Reflection
The mask project, it has had a great impact on our thoughts of socialization. We have been working on this for over 9 weeks, and we have had a great lesson over this exhibition about the Cycle of Socialization. We have done some other mini projects over this along the way, like an evaluation of the Mean Girls movie, and that leads to the other topic of stereotyping in public uses, like movies, books, ads, etc. The topics we have looked over all add up to the Cycle of Socialization, and that is how we have found ways to use the world's process in a story and a picture.
I grade myself, and I am honest when I do it, as I look over these 4 sections, I have completed... Responsibility- I have been well useful to complete the assignments, and I have used my resources to create a well thought-out and meaningful project. Advocacy- I have not done very much questioning, I haven't needed to, but I always tried to do things right, and I was actually quite successful. Perseverance- I have well persevered in this project and exhibition, because I tried new ideas until I had a clever one, I am proud of my success in this project. Finally refinement- The mask itself I made wasn't all that needed to be refined, but the essay, I did make some minor changes, when I look back over things, I see some weird words, so I refined my essay until it seemed worthy of an A.
This project overall gave me a great realization, I have not changed my mind and thoughts about anything, rather I have come to a deeper realization of what I had always questioned. All my thought and questions of the world aren't really discovered answers to yet, but I have come to a realization of the world through these new thoughts, I do wonder if these new thoughts could lead to new greater questions for me, but I am always thinking...
I grade myself, and I am honest when I do it, as I look over these 4 sections, I have completed... Responsibility- I have been well useful to complete the assignments, and I have used my resources to create a well thought-out and meaningful project. Advocacy- I have not done very much questioning, I haven't needed to, but I always tried to do things right, and I was actually quite successful. Perseverance- I have well persevered in this project and exhibition, because I tried new ideas until I had a clever one, I am proud of my success in this project. Finally refinement- The mask itself I made wasn't all that needed to be refined, but the essay, I did make some minor changes, when I look back over things, I see some weird words, so I refined my essay until it seemed worthy of an A.
This project overall gave me a great realization, I have not changed my mind and thoughts about anything, rather I have come to a deeper realization of what I had always questioned. All my thought and questions of the world aren't really discovered answers to yet, but I have come to a realization of the world through these new thoughts, I do wonder if these new thoughts could lead to new greater questions for me, but I am always thinking...