Chris Purefoy: Week 5 Response

Everything I Asked For. But Nothing I Could Imagine.

Patricia Cortado: Week 5 Response

I Just Want A Peace Of Mind With A Piece Of Mine

I just want a peace of mind 

with a piece of mine

That kind of comfort that will cost me to sigh

But nah. 

Every time I get to keep you, only I get to celebrate.

No one really knows what goes on here. 

So when you leave, I get to deal with it on my own.

Why do that when the whole world deserves

To know how you can light up

A whole city 

Just by a simple smile?

Not the one which curves on your lips

But

The one you use to pierce through people’s souls.

Eyes.

Eyes. Eyes.

Eyes sorta see clearly now.

But

Blinded by the feathers you bring

When you flock your wings to fly to me at midnight,

I get captivated, kept, shook.

How can you just carelessly fly all around my room

Not knowing how to settle down?

It’s okay to land right here, sir.

Here we go again.

The next time you come around, I won’t bow down.

My head full of hair, no- I won’t let my crown down.

I’d look up to you as you grab my hand 

To help you touch the ground now.

Comfort. Like I can just melt in your hands.

Comfort. Like I can burst into a million pieces.

Comfort. Like I can let go off the ropes that bind me together

Just so I can fall apart 

Completely.

Sir, in your hands, I will.

But

Who really needs the saving here?

You know I remember that night in the spring?

You flew around me as I walked by the walls of Hub City.

But

At some point, during the trip, for a quick second,

you flew right through me.

Clipping your hands together up in the air,

Tilting your body left and right to see the right angle,

Head first, you bowed down in front of me,

And then the rest followed, not defying gravity.

Pierced right through,

Pierced right through my skin + bones.

Touched, the core of my foundation, even scraped it a little.

Oh, how that shit hurt; left me with a hole right in the middle.

Right here.

But

I liked that shit.

So, when I like that shit, I’ll do that shit.

Most would treat that wound but me?

Nah.

Ain’t no healing from that.

Right there, I knew, loving you is limitless, 

Even when it hurts.

But

How can I be this clueless?

As if I get an unlimited life supply from

The spaces you’ve touched or scraped or left open

Because of some magical aura you hook on people 

To always be tied by you, wanting more.

Effortless.

Addicted to a person which symptoms don’t show,

Takes 2.5 seconds to get affected and a lifetime to alleviate.

Stitches upon stitches that I get to sew,

To do nothing but embrace, not to replace nor reshape,

Here I go.

There was no “handle with care” caution around anywhere.

Fragile, I was with a hole, 

Wholeheartedly, put me in your hold.

Let me the fuck in.

Sir, with you, I rest my soul.

“It’s so beautiful to know someone fully well, at their peak and at their lowest, in their nakedness, and yet, still love them.”

I just want a peace of mind with a piece of mine.

Raymond Lee-Hamlin Week 5 Analysis

1. What themes or concerns in the presented reading are your responding to?
2. What are the materials and processes you used to formulate your response? Why these? If several, which are you most concerned with?
3. Why these materials and processes. What are their limitations? What do they allow?
4. What choices did you make? (For example, the tone of a piece of writing, or the lighting decisions for a photograph.) What led your decision-making about them?
5. What did you learn through this response? (You can address new knowledge or new questions you’ve gained regarding the class reading, the materials/processes you used, or both.)

1. Some themes and concerns I am responding to are the feelings of randomness and slight amusement. I also wanted to showcase some of my creative side (The song on my video was made by yours truly). I felt as though I needed to portray that in my response because that's how I was feeling.

2. The materials I used were also pictures I have taken or come across on the internet. I chose these because they made me laugh or made me appreciate their beauty.  I also chose them because they all have some significance in my life sort of.

3.  Refer to question 2 for why I used these materials and processes.  They allow me to appreciate them all together in one place.

4. The chose to make my piece more happy rather than dark.  I had fun making it and doing all the things that were incorporated especially the music.  I decided to make the pictures this way because they are actually super lit.

5. through this response I realized that I love creating things even if its not that good.  I just love doing it. I realized that about myself and that is so awesome.  Thank you for this.

Raymond Lee-Hamlin Week 5 Response

Uniqua Smith: Week 5 Response:

•What themes or concerns in the presented reading are your responding to?
• What are the materials and processes you used to formulate your response? Why these? If several, which are you most concerned with?
• Why these materials and processes. What are their limitations? What do they allow?
• What choices did you make? (For example, the tone of a piece of writing, or the lighting decisions for a photograph.) What led your decision-making about them?
• What did you learn through this response? (You can address new knowledge or new questions you’ve gained regarding the class reading, the materials/processes you used, or both.)

• I decided to respond to the prompt. I wanted to try and frame my collage more around Ariel Goldberg’s Straight Photography Gallery Tour. They took pictures of sort of random things in the street and talked about certain things in life.
• The materials used were my phone's camera, random household items, and Windows Live Movie Maker. I decided to use household items because honestly I didn't know what I was doing until I started taking the pictures and because I'm going to be doing my video project outside, so I didn't want it to be repetitive. I was more concerned with using the movie maker because I hadn't used it on my computer before. It was harder to download onto the blog until I uploaded it to Youtube.
• The limitations of using the household items was trying to get interesting photos since I am not that creative. The problem with using my phone was trying to get good quality photos. The movie maker was just hard trying to figure out how it worked.
• I just took random photos and picked the photos that related more so to what I wanted to discuss in the collage. To kind of hide a little of the low quality of my phone, and to make the pictures a little more interesting, I decided to put filters over the photos.
• I learned how to use the movie maker fofr the end of the semester project.

Uniqua Smith: Week 5 Response:

Ryan Smith Week 4 Analysis

I am responding to the theme of “discomfortable writing”

I used my past experiences in life to create a poem in the form of “discomfortable writing” where the layout may come across as confusing

I connected each life experience by one line that helped transition into the next, causing the reader to sometimes stop and think about what the current idea is

I chose to create a manifesto on making the most in life and just experiencing the world to hopefully get others to just get out and do things to make an interesting and exciting life for yourself

I learned about the process of “discomfortable writing” and how there really isn’t a process to it, it’s just what your mind comes up with