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Pierre Huyghe Video

Huyghe takes a different approach to creativity that is unlike one I have ever seen before. He challenges the mainstream art by creating pieces that tell a narrative themselves without any words having to be spoken. The goal for his art is to have those who view it engulf themselves in it and feel any emotion they can and want to feel. Huyghe's work is raw and non-fictional; he states that he has "no interest in building fiction," and wants to "set up a reality, produce a reality, and then, only then, document this reality." By using reality as the inspiration for his pieces, he can convey the emotions he wants his viewers to feel and send a message using his art. All of the work Huyghe produces seem to blend right into one another, with the end of one piece being the spark that lights the idea for the next piece. He states that hill most people feel the exhibition is the end, he believes it is only the beginning for something else, potentially greater than what

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

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This drawing is of two cave lions, one male and one female. The male lion is standing beside the female in the drawing, hence why the female lion is drawn in front of the male. The male lion does not have a mane, which may indicate that lions, at the time this was drawn, did not have manes.

Raul Cuero Interview

Dr. Raul Cuero, from an early age, has used his creativity to become a successful inventor and microbiologist. Starting at the age of five years old, he found unconventional ways to keep himself entertained. His family could not afford toys or a TV, so he began observing the cockroaches in his grandmother's house. Even from this young age, he began to think outside the box, allowing him to develop his own way of thinking. He encountered his first real obstacle when he went to college, where he was not seen as anything other than a tall basketball player. Nobody viewed him as an intellectual thinker because of the color of his skin. He used the prejudice directed towards him as a motivation to prove who he was and what he was capable of; he states that to overcome the predicament you are in, you must become who you are, even if it is against the societal views, and become your own nature. Nature is not a universal concept. Being able to have a universal consciousness instead of fol