unscrambled #18 – “the sound of snow”
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Study Hal: Week 31 – Dream Destination
Happy first day of classes! Did you enjoy your break? Hal certainly did, but, his transition back to classes was… A little rough. Wouldn’t we all rather be on a beach somewhere? Especially when the alternative is this classic Michigan snow-rain.
Hal and I are sending good vibes for this semester. How was your first day of classes? While it might have been challenging, the bright side is that it’s nice to be back in a routine again. Keep up the great work!
If you’re new here, welcome! Hal is a U-M student studying remotely this year, and graduating with me after this winter! He’s back on Tuesdays with fun adventures, so be sure to check in or to check the Study Hal tag for more.
The Artist’s Panel: Resolution
Hello all! I hope that you had a restful holiday. This comic is about my experience trying new mediums during winter break this year. After making ceramics for my friend and trying to work with clay in a more relaxed, experimental environment, I realized that I actually really like it! So, my New Years resolution is to not shy away from trying new things in my artistic process, even if they didn’t go well in the past. Do you have any resolutions for this year? Let me know in the comments!
A Song for a New Season
Hello, all. I hope everyone had a wonderful break and a period of rest to focus on yourselves and your own happiness. Personally, this last month or two has followed quite the learning curve for me. The pandemic and other aspects of my life really got to me last semester, but I came to the realization over the holidays that the world doesn’t control how I feel. We make our own happiness. For the first time in a long time I feel as carefree and excited about life as I did when I was a kid. This song is a tribute to that feeling: I call it “I Am. Again.”
VERSE ONE:
Let me tell you a story
About a time in my life
When everything finally felt
Like it was going right
And my dreams they all seemed
Just one more flight of stairs away
Then I got my heart broken
But I tried to be brave
CHORUS:
I let myself be a kid again
Chasing fairytales and booking flights to places I’ve never been
Cuz life isn’t long and we don’t know when it’ll end
And sometimes you can’t wait around for your prince to step in
I am a kid again
VERSE 2:
Now I’m driving round the country
Making friends along the road
Just kicking it and trying shit
And never doing what we’re told
And if the car breaks down or we get lost
We’ll find another way
Sleep beneath the stars in a thousand parks
Watching night turn into day
CHORUS:
I am a kid again
Chasing fairytales and booking flights to places I’ve never been
Cuz life isn’t long and we don’t know when it’ll end
And sometimes you can’t wait around for your prince to step in
Oh I am a kid again
BRIDGE:
Thought no one would want me with all these bruises on my conscience
Took me 5 months to even start making progress
Now I look in the mirror and I don’t recognize the person
Staring out back at me yeah cause she looks happy
CHORUS:
I am a kid again
Chasing fairytales and booking flights to places I’ve never been
Yes I am a kid again
Chasing fairytales and booking flights to places I’ve never been
Cuz life isn’t long and we don’t know when it’ll end
And sometimes you can’t wait around for your prince to step in
Oh I am a kid again
The New Way Of Sharing Dance
There is no doubt that the arts community has been greatly affected by this pandemic. Not just the many struggling dance companies or Broadway unfortunately being placed on hold until the summer of 2021, but the young aspiring artists as well. The young artists in training are forced to take classes online in spaces that don’t have barres, marley floors, peers, or frankly space.
This past semester an online improvisation class was offered through the dance department. It was taught by Charli Brissey who is very well known for their creative dance concept videos. Online performing is a strength of theirs. Taking an online class with a professor who is comfortable with sharing dance through a screen adds a sense of ease to the students taking their class as well. For the final project Charli instructed the students to take the information that they had been writing and discussing about in class all semester and create an online submission- whatever they felt best represented what they had learned. The sky is the limit. Olivia Johnson created an online dance concept video that was extremely breathtaking. Olivia Johnson is a third year dance major originally from the suburbs of Los Angeles. I asked Olivia to explain her creative process and journey throughout this final project and I am pleased to share her video!
When beginning this final project what initial idea sparked your process?
“I was thinking a lot about my own identity and the way I express my gender, and I’ve been studying a lot of surrealist visual artists, performance artists, and photographers. During the era of surrealism and abstraction and a new form of composing and curating meaning in the 20th century, a lot of lovely figures were shape shifting and gender bending, using adornments of makeup and costume and lighting and facials and body language to make an entire story, argument.”
Were there any artists that helped guide you throughout this creative process?
“I was inspired by Claude Cahun, Frida Kahlo and Gladys Bentley, among so many other people, and the way they expressed themselves and their illustrious thoughts. This established a convention of flashing images and self-portraiture that I wanted to splice together, in contrast with a quite genderless me in public, wearing grey sweats.”
When editing your clips and movement what stuck out to you? How was the editing process?
“I wanted the experience to be a timeless void into my innate dialogues about how I like to express myself, my identity, because it changes by the day. And art is a lovely way to question and threaten the standardized, categorized way we express our genders, ourselves, so that we can open ourselves to new possibilities, new relationships, new creations, and boundless archetypes of thought and identity. This project was soaked in a lot of legacy and research, and contains a lot of doubt and contemplation about the ways in which we reflect nature and evolve, as it does itself. Disclosing your identity is not a single event, nor will it ever be!”
+KHAOS+ EP.10: BY THE SKIN OF HIS TEETH
+KHAOS+ EP.10: BY THE SKIN OF HIS TEETH
+KHAOS+ EP.10: BY THE SKIN OF HIS TEETH
Right when Milo and Ed are in grave danger, the siblings Kira and Zion come to the rescue, easily annihilating the army of malicious robots!
+Author’s Comment+
I had so much fun drawing these characters you will never know. 🤣
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