thoughtless art for a thoughtless worldby talina citlali

Through out my writing, I tend to bring up reflective, small moments that re-sult in bigger epiphanies. In the evo-lution of the Blink project, I began to reflect more and more on the very tem-porary state of things in life and what simple moments lead us to do and learn.The general mood of each piece informed my writing. The acrylic painting that I created, for example, resulted in my “sublime” quickwrite, as seen on page 5.My favorite prompt was “moral culpabil-ity versus freewill,” because at this point I was taking the project very se-riously and the symbolism that trans-lated onto my paper was interesting.My favorite medium to work with was the acrylic art piece I mentioned earlier. The end result was a fusion of yellow and blue, as seen on pages 8 and 9.I took a risk with paint because I put aside the fact that I had no experience with it and decided to use colors as I wanted to with-out over-thinking the process of color combination or messing up.My photographs are all of small-er details, which is similar to my writing style in the concentration of zoomed-in moments instead of de-fining, soundtrack-worthy events.My line quality is dark and thick with contrasting smoothness and sharp edges, as well as contrasting col-

Ten themes I'd like to explore in a thematic project for the rest of

this never-ending semester:

* The sounds that an image pro-vokes

* The boring symmetry of human beauty

* What induces laughter* The triggering of emotions based

on past experiences* The small pleasures of life

* The complex layering of emotions that explains our behavior

* How cities are like anthills & how we consider ourselves “above"

other animals but still consis-tently follow the same rules that

they do* The simplified act of revenge as

a reaction to complex emotional pain

* The high, unrealistic standards that we set up for happiness to be

obtained* Different realities diverging

into one and interacting

Reflection