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B L I N K By Kyle Laffey Connection intertwine Bond relationship You interest me. You perplex my thoughts. Your exposure, your nakedness, your secrecy. I have a name for you. It’s wrinkle. I like you wrinkle. REGRET Trust me. One, they’re gooey. two, they’re oddly shaped. Three, they hatch little crea- tures. I’m not a scientist but if you ask me that adds up to alien involvement. What? Because they’re a sign from aliens. Why don’t you like eggs?TRANSCRIPT
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B L I N K
By Kyle Laffey
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Connection
intertwine
Conjunction
network
relationship
Bond
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You interest me. You perplex my thoughts. Your exposure, your
nakedness, your secrecy. I have a name for you. It’s wrinkle.
I like you wrinkle.
REGRET
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Trust me. One, they’re gooey. two, they’re oddly shaped. Three, they hatch little crea-tures. I’m not a scientist but if you ask me that adds up to alien involvement.
Because they’re a sign from aliens.
Why don’t you like eggs?
What?
Freewill
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With every which way I went, with every which turn I took
Cha
nge
self
Cha
nge
wor
ld
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Attraction in space without time
An eternal, abstract concept
Thought
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All my other homes sank into the earth
So I will rebuild
It will be my favorite home.
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You will be invaded tonight
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Isolation
Solitude
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Everyone has their own placeA zone of complete comfort
when it is breachedWhen the world leaks into that comfort
Our minds are clouded
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Possibility
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The blink project was an amazing experience that I will remember for the rest of my life. It taught me spontane-ity and the true power and creativity of our unconscious
minds. I responded very randomly in my early prompts, from a random narrative of a frog to a poem about astronomy
concepts. However, as time progressed my writing became more focused and related to the prompt.
The sixth prompt of a snake shedding its skin inspired me to build a 3d structure of different colors, which I then went on to write about in my piece. I told the story of a frog who had four homes of different colors and it turned
out to be one of my favorite writings of the unit! My favorite prompt was the second - regret - because I really subconsciously put a lot of thought into both my art and writing. Even though I wrote a playful and abstract letter of a king writing to a new citizen of his planet, it
had strong underlying themes and I had a lot of fun doing it.
I loved putting together the collage from magazines for the art portion of blink because I’m not very good at draw-ing and this allowed me to piece together others’ artwork
to create my own piece. This blink project allowed me to take a lot of risks. We weren’t given a lot of time and were told to do whatever
came to mind, so I did exactly that, and what resulted was often not my favorite work. However, a few times I came up with art I would have otherwise never produced, and I loved this project because of that. For example, I wrote a beautiful poem from the point of view of a zoo keeper. Normally when I write poetry it’s either very serious or it rhymes. This zoo keeper poem was much different be-cause although it was fun and lighthearted, it obviously
had a lot of thought put into it and was a wonderful meta-phor for the prompt - isolation vs. solitude. The art piece
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that accompanied this writing was a jumble of animals (and dinosaurs!), never ending roads, and misplaced office chairs
all spiraling into the middle of the page. For the writing portion of the blink project, I often used only a few different forms of writing - poetry, letters, and
narrative. While I dabbled in different angles of these forms, only twice did I do anything different, where I wrote a list of words that came to mind as well as a random dia-
logue that played in my head. I really struggled with the art because although I did get
very creative and did not care how my art turned out, I have a hard time using new artistic techniques when I draw. My mind just does not come up with them so easily and I strug-gle with that, although the ideas I explored were often very
thoughtful. After looking through my art I noticed I like to connect everything together, and noticed a very strong theme in
that. I really enjoy the relationship between animals and humans and my art showed that as well.
When the prompts were finished and I had my nine art and writing pieces, I found some very interesting common
themes throughout my work-
Everything is connected in some way.Relationship of animals and humans
Humans’ comfort zoneHome
Being an outcastChoice vs. Opportunity
ExplorationInfestation
The mind of a child vs. mind of an adultThe perception of time
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By Kyle Laffey