Hello and welcome to my blog. My name is Steven Sklyarevskiy and I am an 18 year old honor student at the Macaulay Honors College at Baruch College. As an honor student I am required to take part in absorbing the culture of New York City but as I progressed with my accumulation of knowledge and experience I began to notice a very interesting idea that shows up in countless mediums of art, death. Boiled down to a small idea, art is life. Art grows from the seed planted in the artist’s mind and takes root on a canvas, a stage, or even a laptop. This natural connection with life brings upon itself death because one side of a coin cannot exist without the other. Death can mean cold emptiness or even rebirth. Some people fear death and others embrace it as a part of life or a transition into new life. Come with me as I explore the art world and you may even run into a few ghosts.