Week 4

Every artistic expression I could remember having put forth in the past ten years has been through music and lyrics, so I couldn’t help but laugh when I actually picked up a pencil crayon for the first time in a very, very long time.

Unfortunately, I don’t think this exercise was very beneficial to me.  I understand the significance of a visual representation, however I find that my mind works differently when it connects ideas that are floating around.  My workspace at home is a testament to my scattered ideas, however, I take comfort in the chaos and believe that there is a method to the madness.  The key words and ideas that have come up in the questions I posed in the previous couple of exercises already exist in my mind, with important ethical questions attached to them.  I feel as though this was almost a step backwards, as I had to detach the terms from questions I had in order to construct the daisy.  I wish I could say that presenting my ideas with the visual organization of the daisy has been a great revelation, but I think it will mostly just resonate as a memory of getting to use pencil crayons in the completion of my Master’s degree.