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English 9 – Blackout Poetry
In our English 9 Poetry unit, we had to create a blackout poem using a page from a book. I got a page from the book ‘Variant’ by Robison Wells, and decided to create a poem about nature. I chose to center the poem on the words ‘gray forest’ and continue from there.
I am proud of this assignment because I made something new out of something older. It is a unique part of me that I displayed using the poem.
Break the Fake – Edvard Munch ‘The Scream’
I found an article that claims the hidden message on the painting ‘The Scream’ by artist Edvard Munch was in fact written by Edvard Munch himself. The message “Can only have been painted by a madman” was originally thought to be graffiti.
- This is the New York Post’s article that I found.
2. I did a search on Wikipedia on New York Post and found out that it is conservative bias, particularly in foreign elections. It does not mean the information is untrue, only that it could be from one perspective.
3. I looked up the information on snopes.com, but it did not reveal any new information.
4. On a regular search engine, I researched ‘hidden message on the scream painting hoax’ and multiple articles revealed the same information as my original article. One of the articles was written by livescience, who, after some further research, appear to be credible.
5. I conclude that the information from my original article, written by New York Post, was true.
Art 9 – charcoal portraits
For my final project in Visual Arts 9, I had to create a large charcoal drawing of a person. It took multiple stages of drawings to prepare for the large portrait. We all started with a smaller portrait that we traced using the projector, then we did one with our arm extended and the piece of charcoal on a stick. After we did multiple smaller drawing with different materials. The purpose was to practice drawing in different sizes and to use our full arm.
I’m proud of this assignment, because it is unlike anything I’ve done before. It challenged me in a good way, to push my boundaries in what I can accomplish. I’m proud because it looks great, especially in my opinion (and that is the only one that really counts in art).
Here are two of the pieces, the smaller one (using one sheet of paper) and the big one (using four sheets put together) …
Information Fluency: Vincent van Gogh
One of my most prominent passions is art. I am currently interested in how the minds of famous artists work. I researched Vincent van Gogh’s mental health and found that it was very unstable, although he did create some of his most well known piece during that instability. The ‘Starry Night’, ‘Road With Cypress and Star’ and ‘Wheat Field With Crows’ were all created when his mental health was at it’s worst, including when he committed suicide. He was an instable man and didn’t take care of himself. His clothing was ragged, his lodgings were cluttered, and he suffered from a terrible gum disease, having once had ten teeth pulled at once. He also harmed himself more than once, having cut off his earlobe (not even his entire ear), and later shot himself in the abdomen to commit suicide. Some 150 doctors and scientists have speculated possible illnesses that could have afflicted him, ranging from schizophrenia to temporal lobe epilepsy. Although he had poor mental health, I found similarities between us. we both don’t enjoy being photographed, are withdrawn and introverted, are voracious and insatiable readers, and spoke a few different languages. With this information, I wanted to find out if certain mental qualities lead to a better artist?
Communications 9 – Podcast project #1
In communications 9, we had to write, record and draw a logo for our podcast in a group. I’m really proud of this project because we had to come up with an original idea and write our own script, and my group did a really good job.
Here is the logo my group created for our podcast.
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“Hey Samara, thank you for sharing your holiday baking ideas. They were amazing and delicious! You could change the oil to butter to make it more moist, but it doesn’t need it if you put the icing on. Could you share another recipe in your next post.”
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