BLINKa composite of thoughts and pictures

By Ariel Ross

salad tongs and dirty prongs caked with dirt and dust

but in this place of mindless waste rhyming is a must

could we fix you if you broke...

Moral Culpability Vs. Free

Will

For the sake of free will I shall do as I please. Although moral culpability may affect

these decisions it brings me peace knowing that I, and only I, can force myself to do something. I’ve come to learn that no matter how hard peo-ple work to push their beliefs or opinions on us, our choices are ours alone. We choose to

take in what we will and in the end we owe these people nothing...

I

HOW DO

WHAT ONLY

CAN SEE

EXPLAIN

Without an internal fuse however can you let your light shine? Change starts from within so I’ve been told, however, sometimes I think we need a little in-spiration. Every now and then our mind needs and ex-ternal source to help light that spark within us.

I change myself, I change the world....

Without an internal fuse however can you let your light shine? Change starts from within so I’ve been told, however, sometimes I think we need a little in-spiration. Every now and then our mind needs and ex-ternal source to help light that spark within us.

I change myself, I change the world....

And with a leap of faith she spread her wings and began to soar

Alone.

SUBLIMEperfection beyond words beauty without bounds

admire with awe speechlessinspiring superb

In conclusion...

This was probably the most interesting and helpful unit in which I was able to learn the most about myself in such little time. I was amazed at how my thought process evolved throughout the different as-signments and how quickly ideas came to me at the beginning of each prompt. I think my favorite prompt was about the meaning of sublime and trying to illustrate that. It was shocking how it all seemed to pour from brain to paper and still turned out so neat and clean. My favorite materials to use were most definately the paint and canvas. I was bummed we had such a short ammount of time to play with the supplies but it was quite enjoyable while it lasted. I actually dis-covered my newfound love for painting through this assignment. I think that I took the most risk in the prompt about regret. For me it can be a really touchy subject that often leaves me feeling ex-posed and vulnerable which can feel uncomfortable. I found it hard-est to write on this assignment knowing someone else would eventually read it. Fortunately I decided to take the personal risk and write a letter to a former friend that I’m now considering actually sending to them. As far as consistency, the only trend among my work i’ve noticed thus far is the arrangement of my art and writing in this book. I tend to flip the layout of the previous page to create a look of sym-metry between my pages. I also stuck mostly to solid colored back-grounds. I’m not much of a fan of gradients but I used one anyways. I suppose you could consider that a risk as well.

Possible Themes:

- Sublime (can it be created artificially? what does it really feel like?)- The state of feeling carefree (liberation)- Weightlessness- Being someone else (actually putting yourself in their shoes)- It’s a small world