Word Visualization Exercise

Hyper! This is the word I chose to visualize. It is supposed to look like kids at a playground, going down a slide... because we all know that kids at a playground epitomize the word "hyper."

Poem for Book Project

China Cat Sunflower
by,
Robert Hunter

Look for awhile at the China Cat Sunflower
proud-walking jingle in the midnight sun
Copper-dome Bodhi drip a silver kimono
like a crazy-quilt star gown
through a dream night wind

Crazy Cat peeking through a lace bandanna
like a one-eyed Cheshire
like a diamond-eye Jack
A leaf of all colors plays
a golden string fiddle
to a double-E waterfall over my back

Comic book colors on a violin river
crying Leonardo words
from out a silk trombone
I rang a silent bell
beneath a shower of pearls
in the eagle wing palace
of the Queen Chinee

Self Visualization Project

The Basic Concept:

This is my self visualization project. The three panels are intended to be seen horizontally, in the order they are shown here, from top to bottom. The main idea is past, present, future. The middle image is my present; an isolated image from a hectic time in my life - college. The quote is from George Orwell's novel, 1984: "Sanity is not statistical." This quote is the central idea of the piece, meaning (in my own interpretation) that, while the majority rules, the majority is not always right. Growing up, I have always found myself out of place. Unpopular in a private school, white in an urban public high school... too rich for the inner city, too poor for suburbia... a pianist who can't read piano music, an artist in an academic school. Essentially, it is a rare occurrence that I am a part of the majority. Yet I am never fazed because I realize that not thinking like others does not make me wrong. This is where the quote comes into play. In the "past" and "future" images," I am surrounded by people. The "past" image is set in Jersey City, in front of a very typical scene of any inner city - a dry cleaner. As I've mentioned, I've never exactly fit in there. The "future" image is set in Paris (a very surreal Paris) because I aspire to end up there one day. Of course, I face the inevitable cultural barrier of any American among Parisians. Luckily, I have been prepared for it my whole life. Over all, my concept is my quote; though I may have a different mind set from the people who surround me, I can feel confident and secure that I am not wrong. And similarly, there is nothing wrong with being a part of the majority. I am just as different as any other person I meet.