One Kilometre
For my 1km assignment my roommates and I geared up in some accessories to make this walk a little different/more fun than our regular walks and went on a 1 km walk with our dog Willow. This was at the end of the first week of classes and was a great way for us to decompress after a long first week back to school after the break and a chance to get some fresh air. This walk was great for both our mental and physical health and was also a way to help get some energy out of our hyper dog. During our walk we talked about ways we could be more successful this semester and ways to help manage our stress as a household. We monitored our distance on my phone’s health app to ensure our walk was exactly 1 kilometre.
Heading off:
On the walk:
Home:
Three feats, Three ways:
one shot:
Loop:
Sequence:
Audio Assignment- Drowned Out Thoughts
For my audio assignment I made a piece about my anxiety. I struggle with a lot of anxiety, especially social anxiety and low self esteem. My audio recording includes a list of anxious and negative thoughts that loop through my head throughout the day. I included an overlay of the voices to resemble the feeling when your thoughts feel like they are crowded and jumbled in your brain. As a way to calm my anxiety down I find the sound of water in many different forms soothing. When I couldn’t settle as a baby my mom would put me on top of the washing machine and run it and I would immediately calm down. Although I no longer get on top of my washing machine when I am anxious, a different form of water I find very soothing for my anxiety is the shower. Whether I actually get in the shower or just listen to the sound of the running water it helps me ground myself and quiet my negative thoughts. The sound of the shower running in my piece gets louder to over power the thoughts and literally drown them out so you can no longer hear them.
Conceptual Portrait- A life Description in Prescriptions
For my conceptual portrait I created a portrait of what it is like to be chronically ill by creating a presentation of all the medications I have been prescribed. I have various health conditions, I have had five surgeries, many different treatments and many different infections from having a weakened immune system. From those reasons I have been prescribed a lot of medications throughout my health journey so I created a list of all the medications I’ve been prescribed with their uses. I also included the medications’ side effects as I find it interesting that something that is used to help your body can also cause harm to it in a different regard. I also find it interesting how there is a lot of overlap between the use of one medication, is the side effect of another.
Button Project – Trapped in a Button
For my button assignment I was inspired by the practice buttons I created of Ana Mendieta. The photos I used for the practice buttons are photos where she is pressed up against glass and once I turned the photos into buttons it made it look like she was trapped in the button. For my assignment I used photos of my friends and family where they are pressed up against windows with their hands pressed up against the window (or their faces as well in some cases). This makes it seem as though my friends and family are also trapped in the buttons. For presenting these buttons I’d like to put them in a frame or shadow box as a way to trap the buttons as well and in doing so the buttons can no longer be used as their function and are more put on display. It makes it feel as though the people in the buttons as well as the buttons themselves are a spectacle on display. For the sake of presenting the buttons today and wanting to portray that idea I placed the buttons in a tool box.
*Trial buttons
