Prompt I ✧

"The Choreography of Language"

Over the next couple of days, take note of the dominant sounds in areas that you consistently walk. What are the sounds you notice most of all? Be specific.

Walking across the UVic campus between MacLaurin and the library:

The sound I notice first is the sound of my own footsteps.
Next, the ferocious trickle of the fountain persistently, stubbornly in my awareness.
The sounds of birds singing and squirrels skittering above me.
The eternal buzz of giant, whirring fans, ventilating something, somewhere.
During busy times of day, jubilant voices glittering with breaths of laughter.
During busy times of night, distant shouting and sounds of traffic.



How do you relate to the phrase "free time only works if you steal it?"

I wish I knew how to steal it.

Or rather, I know how to steal it. But where do I steal it from?
There is no such thing as an empty schedule. Time is always filled by something. If you want any control over how your time is filled, you will have to steal it.
To have free time, you must intentionally take time away from something else. In my opinion, there is not nearly enough "time" to go around.
There is a strong probabilty that time stolen will need to be replaced. Thus, the sensation that anything is gained from stealing time is an illusion.
There is no time. If you need to steal it, there is nowhere to take from, anyway. Something will be lost. Time spent on one thing is time taken away from another, always.

Perhaps this idea that time is dedicated to anything is misleading in itself.
Either we do things, or we don't.



Do you have any other takeaways from the film?

What I love most about the film is the way art is presented to permiate Leslie Laskey's entire perception.

Three scenes stood out most to me:
One, describing a visual work of lines as flowing like a poem.
Two, working on a painting quickly so it is complete within one thought, and intentionally stopping to avoid changing it with afterthoughts.
Three, describing the shadow of an arbitrary object as looking like a flower and tilting it to see how it changes.

Considering the context that is this film being assigned in a music course, medium cross-over was my primary observation of the film.
However, that way of looking at things is also very personally relateable to me.
I make perception my inspiration and my medium whatever way it bleeds out.
It touches everything I perceive and everything I create. Intentional art or not.
Medium cross-over is unavoidable.

Film: 47 Views of Leslie Laskey Prompt: Looking back at the "bones of summer" how have you engaged or created art? If you haven't engaged or created art, please describe why. What things, if any, surround you that you consider powerful? Over the next couple of days, take note of the dominant sounds in areas that you consistently walk. What are the sounds you notice most of all? Be specific. How do you relate to the phrase "free time only works if you steal it?" Do you have any other takeaways from the film?