Within the contemporary artist videos I watched, I got to experience different techniques in which people go about their art. One person that I found interesting in particular was Ann Hamilton. She likes to take things that usually aren’t contemporary art material and turn them into them. She uses the written word and creates pieces. One piece was turning a 2D book page into a ball of “yarn” by taking the lines of words and entwining them into a ball. She wants to turn what’s visible into objects that people actually see which I found interesting. Another artist that caught my attention the most when I was watching was Mark Dion. One of his main goals is to go out in nature and find things and bring them back into their element. One piece was a giant tree that fell and he brought it into the center of the city where it originally would have been and began to make a garden of it for everyone to enjoy. I found this interesting because he puts a life long commitment into projects like these because they have to constantly be kept up with to stay alive rather than once a project is finished forgetting about it and moving onto something else.