Reading the articles on Glenn Ligon, there were certain aspects that touched on his various outlets or areas that he can draw from for his creativity which I found really interesting. You can tell both his childhood as well as some of his other passions and hobbies have had a huge impact on the style of art that he creates. His parents seemed to foster a great environment for self betterment and education. They reminded me a lot of how my parents raised my brother, sister, and I. In a way where money was much better spent on something that could better you in some way, whether it was athletically, artistically, or even more introspectively. They supported us in a journey to fine tune what we were passionate about, in more of a process of elimination as we were younger. You can tell that this same sort of support from Glenn's parents not only taught him a lot about art, but also gave him a better appreciation for it.

Another part of Glenn's creative process I was drawn to was his avid appreciation of reading and collecting phrases. The author discusses how he never reads on a screen, instead flips through hard pages, highlighting or underlining certain phrases that he finds curious, meaningful, or inspiring. With all of the artists we have studied that relied heavily on the printed word or key phrases, I have wondered how they became so good at picking them out or creating them themselves. I can see now that what seems to help Glenn so much with that is, in a large part, his appreciation for the written word. I can also see how, just as many of the artists presented these words as a work of art, stretching the size, color, movement, and opacity for many, it would be important to read them on a page, in their entirety, not just off a 2 dimensional screen.

This image I chose is from a conceptual artist I read about in one of my favorite art magazines Juxtapoz. This artist, Barry Underwood, uses beautiful light installations on different landscapes to, in part, highlight the effect of light pollution on these landscapes.