Tracy Parsinejad

Blink Book By:Parisa Parsinejad

Isolation

No bothersome job, thoughts or litigations.

Live amongst yourself in solitude and you will look upon life with a better attitude...

Change is something that starts with yourself.

YOU open your eyes be aware. Realization, definition and change...

CHA NGE...

MORAL CULPABILITY VS. FREE WILL

Three cups stand before me. Won, Too, Tree. So which one holds a treasure? It’s where my heart belongs. But am I supposed risk what I want for a game of chance?

Should I gamble with what’s right for me? Or should I regress and choose the cup one I want.

Thoughts...

Never stop going on, thoughts are endless, you can never reach a dead end.

SUBLIME

BEAUTIFUL

That which has the power to compel and destroy us. Deeper meaning.

The phrase What If? keeps repeating in my head.

For the rest of my life I’m going to regret this decision.

It cost me someones life.

R E G R E T

Thoughts are the shadows of our

feelings...

Always darker and simpler. Thoughts are selective, one moment a happy and another sad. The more sad the larger the shadow cast.

The snake that cannot shed it’s skin perishes.

Adapt and embrace this world you must chase. If you don’t adapt you will parish in your surroundings.

Blink Analysis

This project really helped me learn a lot about the way I think about things. The first prompt we did which was about thought, stumped me I kept thinking and thinking what can I do with a pair of scissors, a hole punch and some magazines? I thought and thought; still I came up with nothing. Finally an idea popped into my head and I quickly cut up the paper and from there it seemed to all flow together. After that I made sure not to over exert the pre preparation process of the assignment. From then on when I received the prompt I immediately created the first thing that came to mind and let the rest flow. On the charcoal assignment or the Free will vs. Moral culpability I thought of those street performers that hide something under one of three cups and it’s basically a gamble, I drew the cups because you may feel attracted and pulled towards one cup but your almost positive that the other one is the correct one. It’s all just a matter of moral culpability vs. Free will. In a lot of the assignments the creating contributed to how I went about choosing my writing topic. For the sublime piece or the felt marker one, I analyzed what I drew and how it was sublime to me and wrote about it, for that particular one I wrote a rap. I created a rap because all the different colors together made me think of an on going wheel, and I thought a rap had the same kind of flow to it. My favorite prompt had to be the shadows that are as empty as our thoughts, because it was kind of a realization question. One that really made you question yourself and actions. I found it easy to create artwork, and also easy to create a written response for it.

I liked the idea that thoughts have never been thought of in that way, it was a different and new experience for all of us. My favorite materials were either the watercolor with crayon (resistance art) or the painting piece because you can really get creative and use different technique, styles, colors, endless things you could do to make your art interesting and just right to capture the theme. The blink book consists of art styles, and writing styles that I’m not used to. I went out of my comfort zone with this project. For the writing styles I tried all different variations, I wrote a letter, a rap, a memoir, a diary entry. As for my art work I combined photography into my sketches and pieces. I also inverted a couple of my art works and it creates a vibrant intense look. Like in the Water color on I inverted the image and pumped up the hue. I notice especially in my writings that I create a story or lesson to be learned behind everything.

Like the foam board piece I made the polar bear adapt to change by shedding, and learning his lesson. In almost all my pieces there was a lesson or moral to be learned. In my art work there isn’t much consistency just because I wanted to try something different every time, but with the editing style I made sure to use the same type of inverting technique with some type of texture. The approach I took to each piece was similar and consistent although it did depend on the mood I was in at the moment and other defining factors like how my day was going previously and what I had on my mind. Negative or positive thoughts, what was going on in life at that moment. I remember on the day we did the thoughts are the emptier shadows piece I was in a great mood since it was my birthday and I decided to incorporate the day of that into my piece I drew a ground hog because ground hog day falls on my birthday. Over all it basically depends on your mood.