What hurts you the most? This art project was all about essential questions. We had to come up with a question and our art had to answer it. For me, I struggled with this concept. I couldn't figure out how to answer a question through art. At first I came up with the question when will we be set free? Or who will set us free? I had an idea but nothing I sketched seemed quite right. So, I decided to scrap the idea and come up with a new one. My new question was what hurts you the most? My idea for the art to go along with this project was to have a silhouette of a person catching their tears. The background was pieces of paper with typed up definitions of mean or hurtful words that people say to each other. Some of the words also expressed emotions of the person in the silhouette.
I did this project because I know how much words can hurt. Nick-names can sometimes hurt too. Every day we don't realize how much our words affect other people. We forget that every word we say has a meaning. Good or bad words affect people. It's not a problem that just bullies have. Everyone says hurtful things. One reason that we forget how words affect others is that some people don't care or they just act like they don't. They put up a wall between their emotions and you. Just because you don't see their emotions doesn't make it ok to keep saying mean things. So next time you are mad at someone just remember the words you are using and how much they can hurt another person.