Being Blissful

I discovered that I am a bit of an over-thinker when I was trying to do this project. At first I was like ok do something that is fun to me. Then I started to think about it and decided that the assignment was something different and that I had messed up. I kept trying different things to bring me ‘to peace’ and it was never what I thought the assignment wanted. I first went to the movies because that is something that I rarely have time to do and I love to go. I decided that the movies were fun but didn’t make me blissful or at peace so I tried reading for myself and it was the same outcome.

Just Playing Around

This assignment was challenging for me because with everything I have on my plate for the next two weeks (moving to a new apartment, work, best friend’s wedding next weekend, not to mention homework) I’m super stressed and feel like I don’t have time to just play around. However, as I was sorting though the junk in my bedroom last night I found an old sketch book and decided to look through it. I spent the next hour playing with this sketchbook that does not contain many sketches but rather lots of notes, random quotes, story ideas, and old dreams. After looking through this I was not in the mood to keep sorting so I just starting playing ‘basketball’ with my stuff into piles I thought they belonged to. It helped to relieve some of the stress and still get the job done.

Causes

The cause I chose to inflict upon my textbook is Anger. When I get really mad a number of things happen. I will get really quiet, have the look of death (so I’m told) on my face, and I will eventually just cry if I’m mad enough. Not sad tears or even tears of joy; these are tears of one pissed of chick. So when I was trying to figure out what to do with my textbook I realized it’s hard to give my textbook the look of death in just a couple days so I took the more time efficient route and worked with tears. I have soaked my book in several places so that when it is fully dry you will be able to see the effects of my anger.

Class 5/16

Todays class was very thought provoking. Taking an hour to explore the concept of ’cause’ is very new to me. Not just the concept of cause but of anything like that. I feel like I am already starting to look at things differently and I like what I am seeing. I remember studying cause and effect in grade school but never have I just thought about using it for anything more than that. When thinking about our next assignment, I fell like I’m being opened up to a whole new creative outlet by implementing the exercise we did today. I have always struggled in getting inspiration from something without ending up mirroring it to some degree, however this gives me new ways to be inspired.

My Egg

For this assignment I had several ideas of what to do with my egg. I decided to make my egg really stand out from the crowd so I covered it in gold glitter. My egg is now a golden egg, maybe even something from a fairy tale.

Seeing Sideways Expectations

During this class I expect to feel a lot of things.

• I expect to be forced to think outside of the box.
• I expect to be frustrated.
• I expect to be confused.
• I expect to be ticked off.
• I expect to be surprised.
• I expect to be impressed.
• I expect to be entertained.
• I expect to be excited.
• I expect to be pushed.
• I expect to learn.
• And most of all I expect to have my mind opened to so many new possibilities.