kyle laffey
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B L I N K By Kyle Laffey Connection intertwine Bond relationship You interest me. You perplex my thoughts. Your exposure, your nakedness, your secrecy. I have a name for you. It’s wrinkle. I like you wrinkle. REGRET Trust me. One, they’re gooey. two, they’re oddly shaped. Three, they hatch little crea- tures. I’m not a scientist but if you ask me that adds up to alien involvement. What? Because they’re a sign from aliens. Why don’t you like eggs?TRANSCRIPT
B L I N K
By Kyle Laffey
Connection
intertwine
Conjunction
network
relationship
Bond
You interest me. You perplex my thoughts. Your exposure, your
nakedness, your secrecy. I have a name for you. It’s wrinkle.
I like you wrinkle.
REGRET
Trust me. One, they’re gooey. two, they’re oddly shaped. Three, they hatch little crea-tures. I’m not a scientist but if you ask me that adds up to alien involvement.
Because they’re a sign from aliens.
Why don’t you like eggs?
What?
Freewill
With every which way I went, with every which turn I took
Cha
nge
self
Cha
nge
wor
ld
Attraction in space without time
An eternal, abstract concept
Thought
All my other homes sank into the earth
So I will rebuild
It will be my favorite home.
You will be invaded tonight
Isolation
Solitude
Everyone has their own placeA zone of complete comfort
when it is breachedWhen the world leaks into that comfort
Our minds are clouded
Possibility
The blink project was an amazing experience that I will remember for the rest of my life. It taught me spontane-ity and the true power and creativity of our unconscious
minds. I responded very randomly in my early prompts, from a random narrative of a frog to a poem about astronomy
concepts. However, as time progressed my writing became more focused and related to the prompt.
The sixth prompt of a snake shedding its skin inspired me to build a 3d structure of different colors, which I then went on to write about in my piece. I told the story of a frog who had four homes of different colors and it turned
out to be one of my favorite writings of the unit! My favorite prompt was the second - regret - because I really subconsciously put a lot of thought into both my art and writing. Even though I wrote a playful and abstract letter of a king writing to a new citizen of his planet, it
had strong underlying themes and I had a lot of fun doing it.
I loved putting together the collage from magazines for the art portion of blink because I’m not very good at draw-ing and this allowed me to piece together others’ artwork
to create my own piece. This blink project allowed me to take a lot of risks. We weren’t given a lot of time and were told to do whatever
came to mind, so I did exactly that, and what resulted was often not my favorite work. However, a few times I came up with art I would have otherwise never produced, and I loved this project because of that. For example, I wrote a beautiful poem from the point of view of a zoo keeper. Normally when I write poetry it’s either very serious or it rhymes. This zoo keeper poem was much different be-cause although it was fun and lighthearted, it obviously
had a lot of thought put into it and was a wonderful meta-phor for the prompt - isolation vs. solitude. The art piece
that accompanied this writing was a jumble of animals (and dinosaurs!), never ending roads, and misplaced office chairs
all spiraling into the middle of the page. For the writing portion of the blink project, I often used only a few different forms of writing - poetry, letters, and
narrative. While I dabbled in different angles of these forms, only twice did I do anything different, where I wrote a list of words that came to mind as well as a random dia-
logue that played in my head. I really struggled with the art because although I did get
very creative and did not care how my art turned out, I have a hard time using new artistic techniques when I draw. My mind just does not come up with them so easily and I strug-gle with that, although the ideas I explored were often very
thoughtful. After looking through my art I noticed I like to connect everything together, and noticed a very strong theme in
that. I really enjoy the relationship between animals and humans and my art showed that as well.
When the prompts were finished and I had my nine art and writing pieces, I found some very interesting common
themes throughout my work-
Everything is connected in some way.Relationship of animals and humans
Humans’ comfort zoneHome
Being an outcastChoice vs. Opportunity
ExplorationInfestation
The mind of a child vs. mind of an adultThe perception of time
By Kyle Laffey