{"id":6655,"date":"2015-04-17T10:46:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T14:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=6655"},"modified":"2015-04-17T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T14:52:08","slug":"ode-to-arts-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2015\/04\/17\/ode-to-arts-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Arts Ink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this isn&#8217;t actually going to be a poem or anything, I just don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever find such an amazing, open, and enriching experience as blogging for Ink. Despite the hard work of my English professors to make me a better writer and thinker, my year and a half with this blog has grown my writing by leaps and bounds by allowing me to explore my passions and critically think about my everyday interactions with forms of art. I&#8217;m so sad to say that this will be my last post, as I am graduating in almost exactly two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-0VzN2BXUQX8\/TYxBUYI6cDI\/AAAAAAAAA3o\/bEx56jwpbAU\/s400\/4.jpg\" width=\"239\" height=\"170\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.closerweekly.com\/uploads\/posts\/image\/51126\/thelma-and-louise-reunion.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"172\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/3c\/f7\/c4\/3cf7c464b061b9418b8676abf33a728b.jpg\" width=\"93\" height=\"166\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/static.stereogum.com\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Lily-Allen1-608x405.jpg\" width=\"248\" height=\"165\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leanitup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Cereal-Boxes.jpg\" width=\"167\" height=\"167\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/4a\/Jean_Auguste_Dominique_Ingres,_La_Grande_Odalisque,_1814.jpg\/280px-Jean_Auguste_Dominique_Ingres,_La_Grande_Odalisque,_1814.jpg\" width=\"262\" height=\"145\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marinaandthediamonds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Red-Dress-FINAL-JPEG1.jpg\" width=\"98\" height=\"141\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/2\/20\/Scandal_Season_3.jpg\" width=\"114\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ink has allowed me to be an expert on whatever I want to be &#8212; from tattoos to trees to Manet and Picasso, I have been able to teach myself how to analyze all types of art and make them relevant to myself and hopefully my readers. Once I settle in wherever I end up, I hope to continue to blog in this way because I have never experienced such traceable self-growth in such a short period of time and I never want to stop exercising my critical thinking muscles and artistic impulses.<\/p>\n<p>But enough blubbering already, there is so much wonderful art around us all of the time that I challenge everyone to embrace it, contemplate it, internalize it, and even write about it. The guidelines for this blog were simply to write art and write about art and it&#8217;s amazing to see where each Ink blogger took those instructions and follow all of our journeys of self-reflection and exploration of the wealth of the world. I can&#8217;t wait to see what the next group of bloggers will bring. Thank you Arts Ink for an amazing couple of years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this isn&#8217;t actually going to be a poem or anything, I just don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever find such an amazing, open, and enriching experience as blogging for Ink. Despite the hard work of my English professors to make me a better writer and thinker, my year and a half with this blog has grown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655"}],"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\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6655"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6664,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions\/6664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}