creative work #4 – cumulative

ahhhh creative work round-up!

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#2. Untitled Slam Poetry

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#4. I looked at these three pieces with a handful of friends of mine and asked them if they saw a common thread in them. Most of them didnt, or grasped for straws, saying that they all represent “me” or something…In the end, though, I guess that’s true. All three of them are deeply personal to me, even if they seem a little silly or funny on the surface. In the first project, I felt like I was reaching out and trying to know more people – literally, to know more people on the Earth than I already do. It scares me (and excites me) how many people exist that I will never, ever encounter, and by spending hours outside talking to strangers in a positive way, exchanging names and emails and photos, I felt a little more at ease with this idea. In the second project, I tried to put my thoughts down on paper about what’s probably the most difficult thing I’m dealing with nowadays – my relationship and my parent(s) (but mostly singular), like a lot of other teenagers. It felt good to write it, but it was difficult to share. Still, I’m glad I did so. Sharing it, at all, makes it easier to deal with. In the third project, I tried to be more light-hearted. I combined footage of things that really matter to me and put them to a song that I know well. I think if I had to pick a weakness of my three pieces, it would be the fact that the first two had one single topic, each, whereas this one is more scattered. Sometimes I feel like that, myself, so I think it might have been a little bit of channeling going on, but I would have also liked to have had three separate, singular topics in my three pieces. I loved this project, as a whole. It felt good to make one piece of art with two future pieces of art in mind, etc., etc.