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 Last weekend, I was able to go on a campout with some friends, and it went great! Because of COVID, we had to start planning several weeks in advance, and all get tested to make sure we were safe. We also quarantined after we got tested just to stay extra safe. We camped out at Stephen F. Austin State Park, which was about an hour's drive out of the city, and we made it there with no problems.  Once we got to the campsite and set up our tents, it was really lovely being outdoors and away from everything else. It reminded me a lot of the boy scout campouts that I used to go on, although it was a lot calmer. We had burgers for dinner and spent the night talking and playing card games. In the morning we got up a little early and did some hiking around the trails, and admired the scenery. Then around 11:00 we packed up and headed back home. I'm very grateful that I was able to go camping with my friends last weekend. I got to see many of them for the first time in a while, and in...

I've been working on some new art this week that's a bit more political than my usual stuff. After seeing all of the Republican party's attempts to say the election was fake and stuff like that, I made my most recent work for my senior art show. It's a lot less experimental than my other work, and the message is very clear as well. The title is "American Democracy, Properly Executed", and I think it'd the most political work that I've done since that one painting I made back in June. I'm very proud of it, and I can't wait to see what people will think at my senior art show.  Learning Outcome 6: This is a directly political artwork criticizing attempts to paint the election as fraudulent.