artstar

Here's the article on my artstar of the year, pretty cheesy but still awesome.

I also got an etsy account as a second job thing for the summer to make money on the side. I'm doing it with my friend, catherine.

Above is a beautiful painting by Grant Wood. American Gothic is undoubtedly amazing, but I feel like his other works are overlooked. I especially love the laze in this piece. Very midwestern, which I love.

false air

I don't know who I am;
my spine has left me.
I am now more than ever
alive, blood rushing throughout
my veins
tasting the false air
surrounding me.

sheet talk

I just found out I won the LJWorld's overall artstar for the year. I really needed that scholarship money towards art supplies. I'll post the article on here when it comes out. I feel more balanced now, good coming with the bad and all.

This is probably one of my favorite poems I have written:

White curtains
cover white blinds surrounded by white window frames,
yellow morning light cascading in .
These are the days we will
reminisce,
thinking about now and what is to come.
For now we lay under rose colored sheets
illuminating our skin-
a giggle softly spoken
a top magic marker stains,
reminders of hazy nights
now unforgettable

noses near,
lips still

this will be the conscious time
to be remembered

in bloom

"If in barbed wire things can bloom,
why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die."

This link is from LJworld's site, showing my group documentary with Rosemary O'Malley and Sara Cortese. This link doesn't have any of the background music, and our sound in general really wasn't that bad but I can't find any other recording.

In honor of father's day, here's my journal from my junior year. (right page)

romance

In hopes of making this an equal art/music/writing blog, here's a recording of my senior flute recital. This recording is Camille Saint-Saens Romance. The video is really, really rough. I just threw it together without transititions with some photos that kind of made sense with it. But it's really just to be heard, not watched. It isn't processed yet but should be soon. (It is soooo much harder to add music than art or writing)



Also: I finally signed up for classes at KCAI next year. I had a pretty funny dream about it last night. My schedule is:
Foundation Studio 100-03 MTWRF (8:00am-11:50am)- Staff
Western Art I TR (2:30 pm-3:50 pm) - Michele Fricke
Writing Workshop- W (1:00 pm-3:50 pm) - Chloe Jones

It's going to be rough having class at 8am everyday, but I felt that I would be more productive waking up that early than sleeping in and having class until 5pm. I have already met both of my teachers at the open house and have heard a lot about them. Chloe Jones is a feminist writer from KU and Michele Fricke is known for being one of KCAI's best teachers. I hope my studio teacher is enjoyable, I think it will matter a lot towards my determination.

the coming change

Clouds over meadows
vast plains through a window pane.
A glimpse,
new beginnings of
dreams in my way.
Covering shadows cascading
my thoughts will not stay,
a tooth falls on grounds of old
native lands gone-
your breath will escape for a
change is to come.

found within

The hazy meadow of
whispering wind
found within-
white wheat swaying
through the open mist:
another way is won.