Creative Post Week 1/20-1/26

 Week 2 Reflection:

This semester I plan to combine small drawings and music improvisations as practices for my blog. I will use photos of the artwork and audio recordings to present these experiences. I chose the theme of “Clarity”, and I hope that I can use this practice to get in tune with my emotions every week. I also want to see how I can express myself using these art forms since it’s not something I have done in the past. I rarely improvise or doodle something without a reference so I know this will be a challenge, but I am excited to try it out.

This week I found it hard to pick up my violin and improvise a short tune so instead I tried drawing on my iPad which I’ve never done. I didn’t have any idea what I wanted to draw so it took some time to get started but eventually I ended up with a slightly broken flowerpot and some small flowers. At the end, I added a layer of gray slightly hiding the image to represent how this week I felt uncertain and "cloudy" about many things. Though overall I felt ok, there was an underlying uneasiness, and it was like looking through a foggy window. I used the fragment of the flowerpot that is broken off to show that a part of me feels disconnected. The shades of dark blue, red, and gray are depicting that this week, I wasn’t feeling in tune with myself, in which case I would’ve used greens, pinks and purple. The start of the semester has been more stressful than usual and having this blurry vision makes it tougher for me to be hopeful towards the future.

               Taking the time to make this small drawing helped me to reflect on this last week and the emotions I went through. Though I felt a lot, I was unsure where the feelings were coming from. I was able to pinpoint how certain situations and happenings reflected on my overall health this week and I’m looking forward to spending more moments like these in the coming weeks to help me process what’s going on in my head.