Talina Rapo

thoughtless art for a thoughtless world by talina citlali

Reflection

Through out my writing, I tend to bring up reflective, small moments that result in bigger epiphanies. In the evolution of the Blink project, I began to reflect more and more on the very temporary state of things in life and what simple moments lead us to do and learn.

The general mood of each piece informed my writing. The acrylic painting that I created, for example, resulted in my “sublime” quickwrite, as seen on page 5.

My favorite prompt was “moral culpability versus freewill,” because at this point I was taking the project very seriously and the symbolism that translated onto my paper was interesting.

My favorite medium to work with was the acrylic art piece I mentioned earlier.

The end result was a fusion of yellow and blue, as seen on pages 8 and 9.

I took a risk with paint because I put aside the fact that I had no experience with it and decided to use colors as I wanted to without over-thinking the process of color combination or messing up.

My photographs are all of smaller details, which is similar to my writing style in the concentration of zoomed-in moments instead of defining, soundtrack-worthy events.

My line quality is dark and thick with contrasting smoothness and sharp edges, as well as contrasting col-

Ten themes I'd like to explore in a thematic project for the rest of this never-ending semester: * The sounds that an image provokes * The boring symmetry of human beauty * What induces laughter * The triggering of emotions based on past experiences * The small pleasures of life * The complex layering of emotions that explains our behavior * How cities are like anthills & how we consider ourselves “above" other animals but still consistently follow the same rules that they do * The simplified act of revenge as a reaction to complex emotional pain * The high, unrealistic standards that we set up for happiness to be obtained * Different realities diverging into one and interacting