The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, but indifference between life and death. ELIE WIESEL Beauty & Barbarism It was fun to see that “Beauty” was alsoContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 3: Beauty and Barbarism”
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Poetry Month Challenges Day 2: A Surreal B-Movie
Fight or Flight As I mentioned yesterday, one of my ideas for my contradictory abstraction is that they are all part of the fight or flight response. The fight or flight response is an automatic physiological reaction to an event that is perceived as stressful or frightening. The perception of threat activates the sympathetic nervousContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 2: A Surreal B-Movie”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 1: Aggression and Apathy
Welcome to the first day of National Poetry Month! April is a busy month here at Experience Writing. There’s a lot to experience: the cherry plum trees are covered in their happy pink and white blossoms; daffodils bow their frilly heads in the flowerbeds; and I enjoy combining the daily writing challenges of blogging AContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 1: Aggression and Apathy”
RNLN Attempt 12: The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Procedural Tips This week I tried a whole new way of reading. I used the free application Spreeder for my first read of The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Spreeder is an online speed reading application that flashes text at a central focal point. Its default is one word at a time at 300 words perContinue reading “RNLN Attempt 12: The Awakening by Kate Chopin”
Point, Line, and a Code of Emotion
This week I finished reading Point and Line to Plane by Wassily Kandinsky. Though it’s a confusing read at times, he has many interesting ideas about how the elements of abstract art interact with the world to express and create emotion. Last week I gave his great example of the point as silence. Moving theContinue reading “Point, Line, and a Code of Emotion”
A Weed is a Flower in the Wild
For today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub, Sarah encourages us to celebrate National Weed Appreciation Day. Over at National Day Calendar I found some tips on how to observe this day of appreciation: HOW TO OBSERVE WEED APPRECIATION DAY And I’ll add: Last year I discovered that I can put a small weed onContinue reading “A Weed is a Flower in the Wild”
RNLN Attempt 11: Home by Toni Morrison
Reading Novels Like a Novelist This week I read Home by Toni Morrison. Home is a compact novel of only one hundred and forty six pages. It has a great opening hook of a man trying to escape from a hospital and letting the reader in on his plans of deception and escape. He doesn’tContinue reading “RNLN Attempt 11: Home by Toni Morrison”
Kandinsky and the Inner Tensions of the Point
I’ve reached an interesting and complicated point in my study. I want to create images that express contradictory abstract nouns and evoke emotion. But how will I photograph those images if everyone has different definitions for abstract nouns and everyone perceives images differently? How do points, lines, and colors on a two-dimensional surface evoke emotionContinue reading “Kandinsky and the Inner Tensions of the Point”
RNLN Attempt 10: Kaleidoscope by Brian Selznick & S. by Doug Dorst and J. J. Abrams
This week is going to be a little different. Every time I look “Abstract Art” in my local library system’s catalogue, the novel Kaleidoscope by Brian Seznick comes up. The cover looks like an extreme close-up on a green eye with the white lettering across the pupil. I’ve been curious why that novel comes upContinue reading “RNLN Attempt 10: Kaleidoscope by Brian Selznick & S. by Doug Dorst and J. J. Abrams”
My Place in Space
For today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub, Ingrid urged us to “write the poetry of the places and/or spaces which inspire you the most.” What a wonderful prompt for the first sunny spring day of 2023 here at Lake Tapps. Once Upon a Lake Tapps Spring Today the Mountain peeks from behind the cloudslikeContinue reading “My Place in Space”
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