Mark Acosta

The Cream of The crop

It is dangerous in that it numbs you

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Flame, Open Flame, In my Garden, By the Tree.

A ghost passes by, and it bleeds, by the tree.

I could recognize his voice in a sea of a million voices. Easily. Unfortunately I never listened to what Harold said

Once upon a time, there was a rat that could create purple lightning with his tail. He was the King of all other rats, and they all loved him.

King Love is what he was called.

King Love, with his amazing lightning reach, could grab hold of food that was inaccessible to all other rats. He shared his food generously, with the entire rat nation. It was indeed a wonderful time to be a rat.

One day, King Love, found a whole wheel of bright orange cheddar cheese, sitting on the window sill of an apartment belonging to a starving artist. The king had stolen from this particular artist many times before, as he always had high quality cheese lying around. The cheddar cheese was the perfect thing to take back to the entire rat nation, and everyone would love him even more than they already did. So he extended his purple lightning tail at the wheel of cheese, and grabbed it down from the window.

I always tried to use a different a different type of writing for each piece. This way I kept interest throughout the entire blink unit. I also noticed I became more and more playful with my writings as we went along. I even wrote a little children’s story at one point. My writing was really inspired by the visual piece for the sculpture assignment. The sculpture ended up looking a lot like a rat, and there were angular purple lines covering the base of my sculpture. So, I ended up writing about a rat that could create purple lightning as a child’s story. My favorite prompt was the one about moral culpability vs. freewill. It was the most challenging and gave me the most to think about while I drew. My favorite material was the drawing pencil on its own, because it was simple, and I could create a lot of stuff with just the pencil. I took the most risks in the composition of my pieces. The composition for most of them is very chaotic, and there is a lot to look at. This is usually a bad thing in design but I hoped it worked effectively. Also, I noticed angular, sort of boxy lines in the corners of some of my pieces. It seems to be a repeated design.

Comfort vs. Risk Instant Gratification Waiting Paranoia vs. Caution Picking your battles.

Exploiting beauty Leaving home Crazy love The slowness of nature Psychic energy.