This first assignment we went to Wordle.net and using this program create a brief story by using a group of words graphically. Ever since I was a kid and someone told me that I was really good at art and should become an artist I have felt a kind of pressure to always be creative, interesting, funny, what ever it took to get approval of my work...I decided this one time that I wouldn't worry about what anyone else thought of my work and just create something that was meaningful to me.
I am what you would call technologically declined. I'm not familiar with creating anything on the computer, I always relied on a pencil or paintbrush. So I dove in a hoped the claims were true, that this was a simple program. To my relief it was just that. The words I used to tell a story were issues that I have been dealing with for a while. It turns out that this project was a bit therapeutic in a way. I actually had no intended audience, I did this for myself. Did I want to evoke certain feelings or emotions? No, my intention was to get a handle on the feelings and emotions I already was experiencing.
I feel that this project gave me a kind of awareness as far as being myself, to let go of inhibitions and be myself. It may not make it more interesting but it is definitely more real.
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