Free-writes & Calls Writings Throughout The Semester:

1/30/24:

I chose to write about a museum I went to this past week, specifically a piece of art that I saw and that stuck with me. On my last day before the semester began I decided to go to the Neuberger museum by SUNY purchase, I spent most of my time in this exhibit displaying this African painter’s art. I forget his name sadly, but I remember the art. His work was extremely simple visually, but all of the pieces shared a complex meaning. His art used traditional Somali painting methods and mediums, including cow dung, mud, and dirt, and used natural hair from local animals for brushes. The pieces were devoted to this religion or belief system called Na. The artist used the pieces as a form of self-discovery and a reevaluation himself using ideology adopted from Na. One piece had this brown mud border and a Scarlett-painted center with a single curved line down the center. Something about the color and shape that I really liked.

2/6/24
The image we are looking at is a woman firebreathing on a wall with a message written across it. My preferred narrative to describe the image at hand is a woman displaying a talent with an underlying message that is rebelling against an organization or movement. She breathes fire like a dragon in an aggressive way against a fortification. Where the woman is the dragon, and the movement is the fortification.

2/15/24
The image above is spiderman standing next to a snowman. The narrative that I get from this image is a snowman that was built by children in New York City, and as they’ve gone and left the snowman for the elements, spiderman finds comfort and accompanies the snowman on the cold winter night. It could be that spiderman has had a really difficult day fighting and protecting the city, and seeing something so innocent and simple as a snowman is enough to bring him back down and restore peace to his mind.

2/20/24
It’s funny that the free write surrounds the Met and their second attempt to correctly portray the Harlem Renaissance because I was at the Met yesterday and spent a lot of time in the gift shop reading books on the Harlem Renaissance. I later moved on to reading half of a book in the store called The Atlas of Midth-Century Modern Homes. I read excerpts about all sorts of beautiful houses ranging from Plam Springs California, to the Hamptons in New York. The book also began to cover other countries and continents but I didn’t make it that far in the hour and a half that I sat in front of the books and immersed myself in the book.

Observations: Marshmallows!

0:00	Cody is given a marshmallow and the rules are explained to him.	He seems excited and is deciding whether he wants to eat it now or wait
0:45	Cody plays with the marshmallow, rolls it around, bounces it, touches it	Pure excitement, he genuinely cannot wait
1:00	Starts to get the desire to eat it again
3:00	Ignoring the marshmallow and is entertaining himself
3:30-7	Visually bored	Sits there staring at the wall and is monotone and he’s doing anything to
8:00	He starts calling for his dad to come back	“Come here, please” Sounds frustrated and is pleading
8:45-9	Dad returns	He finally gets the second marshmallow and is excited to eat both of them“I got” he waited to get the second one Hes happy and excited to see his dad return, knowing he’ll get another marshmallow.