Revision

A revision of Original Blog Post

 This summer I travelled around Europe studying works of art with Mrs. Reitz, the world history teacher. Recently I began piecing together my portfolio for showcase and i ran across this image from the summer trip. This was a simple snap shot I took and didn't look back on, but when I ran across it a second time it made me think.  There is something so sweet and innocent about the little girl on her mothers back. I began dwelling on the unconditional love of parents. I know that my parents love me no matter what I do, and often i credit this to the fact that they created me. I began exploring this principle of love through creation in Merry Shelly's Frankenstein. 

So a creation is by definition "the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation  Of course my parents love me because they have watched me grow, but the fact that I am their creation increases those feelings and bond. So this makes me wonder why in Frankenstein is the monster not loved? Victor did create him and spend all this time and effort on him. Was it simply because he was ugly? So do appearances really matter so much as to cancel out that natural tendency of unconditional love? Obviously that love would no longer be considered unconditional. 

Granted this is not exactly a parent child relationship, monster and creator... but what could be any closer? The monster was created by Victor and you'd assume that some kind of platonic love of some kind would be present. The only time that Victor shows any parental instinct is when he takes responsibility and decides create a companion monster. This second creation is Victors attempt to fix his own problems, the monster in question. With that in mind no longer is the companion monster a sign of love and caring but rather Victors attempt at redemption. Victor is like a bad parent with selfish and  A really negligent parent. 

College Essay Numero UNO

The prompt of this college essay was:
"Tell us about your passion for the theater, how you came to the theater, your training, and why CCM is the program for you...."

 

I sit consumed in silence listening intently in the dark corner that resembles a closet. I stare thirty feet below at the ghost like moving figures. I watch the stage waiting to call the next cue and see the magic of the theater unfold.  With each cue called, light hung, and line said and alternate reality is created and it is one of passion, romance, and surprises. The theater is powerful in its raw reactions from the audience fuelling the creation of a beautiful piece of art, night after night. All around the world, for centuries, the theater has had audiences, techies, and actors filled with a new kind of light, inspiring the innovative world that is the theater

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In 2007 I was accepted into Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. I entered as a drama acting major in hopes to expand my abilities as an actress. During my freshman year my teacher preached the concept of being a well-rounded artist. Without experience in every aspect of the theater I cannot truly be the artist I wished to be. With this in mind I took Set Construction, Stage Management, Lighting Design, Sound Design, and all of my acting classes. This exposure grew my passion for theater and I began to care less about if I was acting on the stage and more about being part of a processes.  I had to be part of the theater, no matter what I was doing. During my sophomore summer I managed two shows outside of school and decided that I had found my niche. Stage Management included every part of theater that I had come to love. To this day my passion for stage management in the theater continues to grow, as does my need for a challenge.

I hope to be challenged and pushed as an artist at CCM. I am looking for a program that is fast paced, challenging, and full of new problems to solve. I believe that CCM will give me just that. I am a very passionate and focused individual hoping to apply my time fully to the art I love so much. When I graduate I hope to be a working Stage Manager. I am very opened minded to Opera, Musical Theater, and drama, as all of them are equally as exciting! I’d like to be doing this full time until I retire. After being the stage management intern at the Dallas Theater Center I have been exposed and a part of a professional working theater and there is no place I’d rather be. I hope to spend all my days in a theater, and my only days off to be Mondays! CCM will give me the tools and experiences of all forms of theater and a rigorous program to keep me engaged!  This will fully equip me to be a working professional in the wonderful world that is the theater. I am excited and looking forward to spending all my days learning to creating new magic for audiences!

 

Now Slip Under

This creative post is a poem loosely based off of "Now Goes Under" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Now I slip under, and I watch it grow, that love
that entrances and engulfs.
Today has ended the struggle, in your clutching fists,
and the senseless quarrels,
Of friendship magnified, and frightening
That leads to an angry ocean.

This is truth
That I should have gone
From that consuming love, that constant hungry mouth
so ready to dine with fork and knife
to leave so many deteriorating. Face to Chest
weakening backbone in this place,
where honesty is a delicacy,
and sincerity comes only three times a day,
I am drowning, swallowed by the motions.

I would have swam, but if I could
The waves would grow taller, the salt burn,
the storm going further than the eye can see
But only for me, the weak one.

Now goes the will, I slip under.
Farewell, sweet self, you are eaten.

Parents love

  This summer I travelled around Europe studying works of art with Mrs. Reitz. Recently I began piecing together my portfolio for showcase and i ran across this image. This was a simple snap shot I took and didn't look back on but when I ran across it a second time it made me think.  There is something so sweet and Innocent about the little girl on her mother back. I began dwelling on the unconditional love of parents. I know that my parents love me no matter what I do, and often i credit this to the fact that they created me. 

So a creation is by definition "the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering." Of course my parents love me because they have watched me grow, but the fact that I am their creation increases those feelings and bond. So this makes me wonder why in Frankenstein is the monster not loved? Victor did create him and spend all this time and effort on him. Was it simply because he was ugly? So do appearances really matter so much as to cancel out that natural tendency of unconditional love? Obviously that love would no longer be considered unconditional. 

Granted this is not exactly a parent child relationship, monster and creator... but what could be any closer? The monster was created by Victor and you'd assume that some kind of platonic love of some kind would be present. The only time that Victor shows any parental instinct is when he takes responsibility and decides create a companion. Although that is a failure, Victor is like a bad parent. A really negligent parent.