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For my creative work I was inspired by the most influential people in my life, my brother and sister: Josh and Micah. Before them I was an only child for 16 years, but since they were born I cannot even bare to think of life without them. It has been amazing watching them grow, for it seems like it was just yesterday that we brought home two tiny bundles of joy from the hospital. Oh how fast they have grown.

I would like to give a special thanks to Justin for his technical support! You’re the best!

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“Dreary Days”  (lyrics)

It’s been a little dreary out there
The sun refuse to shine through the clouds
And the whole world is cast in grays
But it’s important to have some faith

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This was a piece i made to stick with the concept of love and what i tried to do was show some of the things that are from the heart like how family takes a piece of our heart and things that are important such as honesty and trust, along with of course, Love, which a heart is a symbol for

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The audio doesn’t work when I upload it on youtube so please, bare with me.  Thank you.

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This blurb gave me an excuse to go the MoMA, which I have always wanted to visit, but was just too lazy. I enjoyed everything from the modern art to the modern architecture of the building, but there was one particular artist’s work that I just loved. His works have simple colors, simple shapes; there’s nothing complex about them. I’m sure everyone has seen this painting before (pause). This composition was done by Piet Mondrian. I had seen this painting once in the 5^th grade, I did not know the name of the artist or the title of it at the time, but I never forgot the painting because I found it so unique. At the MoMA, I was surprised and thrilled to discover Mondrian painted other paintings with the same style and that the painting I had seen in elementary school had siblings. I learned that his style of painting is a form of abstraction called Neo-plasticism. I don’t know why I’m so fascinated by these particular works by Mondrian. Perhaps it’s the simplicity of it. It is composed of colored rectangles, and Mondrian tends to use the same colors: red, blue, white, yellow, sometimes grey, and black for the lines. Or maybe it’s because I like rectangles. I like things with perfect angles. It bothers me when things have rounded corners. In these paintings everything is so straight, right-angled, and perfect.

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The Broadway show “Next to Normal” was truly a great play that’s incomparable to anything else. Next to Normal is a show that is played in the Booth Theatre on Broadway. It is about a mother has a bipolar disorder and it shows the effect of her illness on her family. The musical addresses issues such as grieving a loss, suicide, drug abuse, ethics in modern psychiatry, and suburban life.

The opening scene of the show was very eye-catching. The mother was making sandwiches on the kitchen floor. To the audience, we saw four members in the family, Diana (the mom), Dan (the dad), Natalie (the daughter) and Gabe (the son). After a few minutes into Act I, Diana emerged with a cake singing “Happy Birthday” to her son, Dan and Natalie were devastated. Just when we, the audience, were questioning Dan and Natalie’s reactions, we found out that Gabe was actually dead. The Gabe we saw on the stage was actually the ghost that Diana saw as her son. Since Diana is always grieving over her dead son, she never pays any attention to her daughter Natalie, who is actually alive. This type of neglect by her mother resulted in a depressed Natalie.

Throughout the play, the family goes through many things to cope with the death of Gabe. From the play we saw how one person can have such a traumatizing effect on a whole family.

Another factor that made the play so great was the lightning. Throughout the play, different colored lights would switch on and off to show emotions and help create the environment and mood for the situation.

It is a Broadway show that everyone should watch!