As I was walking to class today I passed by a pile of discarded cardboard boxes and it made me think that maybe someone saw them and thought they were, in some odd way, beautiful. When I reached my class and entered the building, I again wondered if someone viewed the combination of materials as a building purely for purpose and not as a work of art. My morning adventures led me to the assertion that only individuals through their own preferences are able define something as 'art'. Our opinions are undeniably diverse and so are our definitions of art. Here is a picture I found of a field of flowers in striped pattern. Obviously, a natural landscape would lack such direct patterns but I picked it because the picture could possibly demonstrate how someone views their surroundings as art. For some, the natural patterns stick out and they see an unprecedented beauty the human hand alone cannot create. For others, trash along the street or discarded items could be art... it all depends on the viewers prefrences
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