Beautiful vs. Sublime

Beautiful vs. Sublime

Regret

Thoughts are shadows of feelings
Down from the sky,
falls the darkness.
It falls onto the ground,
spreading like the water
that brings life to the world.
But this blackness carries something different.
It envelopes the thoughs of everybody.
They become bound to their shadows,
who walk the world in darkness.

Moral Culpability vs. Freewill

Isolation vs. Solitude
The river f ows rapidly downstream, dividing the sand from the rocks. The pitter patter of rain can
The rocks become dark shades of black and gray, with each drop that falls on them. Thunder can b
beaver realizes he ha traveled to far down river, away from the dam he helped buil out of sticks and
jumps out, onto the side with rocks. The rocks hurt his paws, so he crosses over to the sand side to
down as he walks along the now grayish sand. He gets bored along his journey, so he decides to b
same beaver that built a dam not to long ago. He f nishes his castle, a castle that resembles one fro

e heard as it falls on both the sand and the rocks, making the sand wet and clump together.
e heard as it shakes the river bank. Out from the depths of the water a pears a beaver. The
rocks. He starts his journey back up river. Swimming takes to much time and energy, so he
continue back to the dam. His fur is wet with all the water he has soaked up, weighing him
uild a sand castle. This is no ordinary castle though, this is a sand castle built by a beaver, the
m midevil times where kings would live.

I change myself, I change the world
As change comes to engulf the world,
inside, we yearn to change as well. The
universe may be expanding, but from
our perspective, we see it enclosing us
into our own world. As scientists try
to see smaller and smaller, to see what
forms our bodies, we fail to see what
our world forms as one of the smallest
planets in the galaxy. And as the universe
expands, we become smaller and
smaller. But unlike other planets, we
are everchanging, trying to go to new
heights to see if we can fnd our place,
even if we are only a minor footnote in
the grand scheme of things.

Thou

ght

The arch to another world appears. He
passes under it and fnds himself in a
room. A room that has only one way
out, the way he came in. He sees the
a river that passes under a wall. He
decides to try his luck, so he swims
under the wall. As he passes under,
ther water turns a different color as he
becomes liberated, from his past world.
Above him, he sees a bridge that leads
to nowhere, and the yellow path that
joins both sides horizontally. He begins
to swim down the river and looks
forward to starting his new life on the
other side of the wall, and wonders if
he will ever cross the yellow path,
over the rest of the people
trying to free themselves.
Snake that cannot shed

its skin, perishes

I responded to many of the prompts in either a poem or a short
story. I talked a lot about water and the ocean in them as well.
I drew a picture of rain falling with a river running below, and
I wrote a poem about the rain clouds.
My favorite prompt was the sublime because it was very abstract
and experimental. It allowed me to express myself in a
different way than what I’m used to.
My favorite material was the acrylic painting we did on small
pieces of canvas. I really liked this because I don’t do paintings
very often, so it was fun to do something different.
I took some risks in my writing by writing some poems, which
I don’t consider myself particularly good at, but I think it
worked out. I also took some risks in my sketch when I drew
a maze, because it was abstract.
I noticed that in a lot of my pieces, I use the whole piece of
paper. I also sketch quite lightly, which can be seen in both
the maze and the triangle with the sun and moon.
I think my energy was pretty consistent. Many of them were
related to nature, or had natural colors in them. The ocean
piece, the rain above the river drawing, the river fowing in my
3 dimensional piece.

Flow
Composure
Water
Surround
Sky
Energy
Natural
Path
Glow
Design