During the last week of the class, we went out for our self-field trip to do whatever research/practice needed for our final project. Since I needed to interview students of Massart to create imagery of the monster in my drawings.

The questions I asked were:

• What is the monster you have to fight everyday as an artist?
• what to you fight for? What are you trying to achieve from creating art?

The first questions was conducted to find out how should I design the monster. Many people answered my question, but the most frequent answer I got  were sleepiness, art block or getting inspiration, and the unknown future (it is hard to become a ‘big shot’ in art world). So I tried to find one image to summarize these monsters, and the final answer I got was ‘darkness.’ You get sleepy when it’s dark; not knowing what to draw or create is kind of like being unable to see what is inside yourself; and not knowing the future and having concernes about it is like walking in darkness without any guide. So therefore, the image I will give to my monster is darkness.

The second question was asked to figure out what is the image of the prize/honor/love interest that the hero finds after his battle with the monster. Most people I interviewed said that the reason they fight their monster is to create an art and express themselves. Their love for art is the reason they fight. And when they win the battle, they get the satisfaction from their finished works. Therefore, I thought the prize that the hero gets in my myth of massart should be a love interest then a money or honor. Also, I think that in my mythology, the love interest may should be in same gender as the hero. Because: First, homosexuality and same sex marriage is one of the issues we have in modern society and many students in Massart is interested and supporting it. Ancient mythologies mostly talks about how the heroes rescue princess, but it never talks about a couple with same gender (except for the Greek mythology, where these lovers always end up with a tragic ending.) Second, many people I interviewed answered that the reason they make art is to express themselves and take out what’s inside their mind. Therefor I thought it would be a better representation if the person the hero rescues is in same gender as the hero as a the other self.