My Story In New York

New York I will never forget atmosphere

Your Sounds

Your Art

Your Culture 

 The friendships

And your stunning views

Which brings me to my next object

New York

All the memories 

In a box

 Wrapped up in one place

It was a couple of months into my art and design foundation course when I got the opportunity to go to New York City with college. New York was amazing, the sounds, the smells, the views, It was just like out of the movies.One thing that will stay with me forever is the night time view from the top of the Rockefeller building, you could see the most of Manhattan lit up it was amazing.It was like I had discovered whole new world and when I think about it, that isn't far from the truth.

Later on in the course, We where working on a fine art module, the brief was to produce a story in a box, I new straight away that I wanted to tell my story of New York, and thought It was a perfect way of keeping that memory in a piece of art.

So how does it define me as a person, I think that it marked a change in the person that I was and what I am now, before I would have never taken that step, that step to venture that far away from my home and family, it was almost a symbol of me breaking out of my shell, It was the furthest I ever traveled in my life as well.It gave me the taste of adventure, to take chances, to do the out of the ordinary.It made believe that I could do anything or achieve anything, and this box includes all the memories of that great experience.

So what does it say about the culture that we live in? For me it showed me how different and diverse the world is. The New York culture was moving at a 100 miles per hour. People were like moving traffic, I remember how people would commute to work via the Staton island ferry, I remember how business men would sit in armchairs while they had there shoes polished while waiting for there train and way people would whistle for a taxi. Everything was so big as well, the buildings the, the food markets the art galleries and the hearts in the people that I met.There were people sat on there doorsteps listening to some rap music and dancing away, people drinking and singing in a Irish bars.I also noticed how multi cultured the city is as well.

Overall the experience had a very positive impact on my life and it will stay in my memory forever and if that memory ever fades, I will always have My story of New York in box