{"id":23753,"date":"2023-10-12T16:09:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T20:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=23753"},"modified":"2023-10-12T16:09:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T20:09:21","slug":"otm-36-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2023\/10\/12\/otm-36-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"OTM #36: Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-23754 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/otm36-300x119.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"786\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/otm36-300x119.png 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/otm36-768x304.png 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/otm36-1024x405.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My favorite class at the moment requires great amounts of personal reflection &#8212; sometimes more than I am comfortable with, in fact. Our essay prompts ask us to think of big &#8220;why&#8221; questions and reflect on what matters to us, something that is really exciting to me (but also sometimes scary). For the final draft of my most recent essay, I had to dig into my teenage experience on the harsh acne medication, Accutane, and I found it was hard to truly uncover those memories in a normal setting.<\/p>\n<p>So, I created a &#8220;torture chamber&#8221; for myself: lights shut off, noise-cancelling headphones on with a selection of music I liked in high school. Instantly, I was able to transport myself into the body of my younger self, who was deeply insecure about her acne. I&#8217;ve grown a lot since that point, of course, but sometimes art requires us to enter these negative headspaces to draw out meaning, and I&#8217;ve always found that to be oddly fun. What is my joy without the past Katelyn&#8217;s suffering, you know? On that note, I hope all of you UMich students (myself included) have a lovely fall break free of suffering! Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite class at the moment requires great amounts of personal reflection &#8212; sometimes more than I am comfortable with, in fact. Our essay prompts ask us to think of big &#8220;why&#8221; questions and reflect on what matters to us, something that is really exciting to me (but also sometimes scary). For the final draft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2250,"featured_media":19276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1388,944,1381,2047],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23755,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23753\/revisions\/23755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}