Art in different forms

I particularly liked our last assignment. One of my other classes that I'm taking this quarter is fundamentals of drawing. Im learning a lot about the structure of art and center of interest and what not. I did my paper on William Carlos Williams' The Great Figure and how it went along with Charles Demuth's painting I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold. I was able to use some of what I learned in my art class about the wieght of some objects/ center of interest and apply it to my paper to show how the two worked together. I also had never seen the two different types of art paired together and the idea was very interesting to me. Thanks for the good assignment Jared!

I know this is super late, but I completely spaced it last thuraday. So here is my late blog and I apologize for it taking so long. Last week we read and studied a little of William Carlos Williams work, "This Is Just to Say." We then wrote a parody of the poem. Here is mine:

I have lost
the photos
that were in
the drawer

And which
you were probably
keeping
for memories

Forgive me
they were beautiful
so bright
and so bold

This poem to me actually had meaning. A friend of mine lost her mother to pancreatic cancer 3 years ago when she was only 17. She had lots of pictures saved on her computer of her, almost the only pictures of her mother that she did have. But when her computer got a virus she gave it to her father who is a computer programmer to fix it. In fixing it he was unaware that there was anything of such importance as the pictures of her late mother on the computer. He deleted her entire hard drive. My friend was devestated by her loss.
In my poem I made the narrator her father speaking to her. I changed the computer to a drawer just because i believed a computer would not sound right and I believe making it more genuine sounding is more important than using the actual object. And because her mother was beautiful, bright, and bold she will not have a problem remembering her mother, even without the majority of her pictures.

changing of the seasons

Growing up and living in the northwest has made me a fan of the outdoors and our wonderful array of seasons. I love the fact that we get all four seasons and my favorite times of the year is the changing of these seasons. Each of these seasons has an amazing power to put me in a different mood. Kate Chopin seems to use this power that nature has on our moods in her writing. She’s very talented at putting weather into her stories and letting the weather convey the type of emotional atmosphere that the character in the story is experiencing at the time. I can relate to this because the weather has always been able to affect my mood and whether I want to go out and party, just relax in my back yard with my dog, or maybe go work on one of my project cars.