Pasted Mind: snake skin
I’m back for the SMW summer with more poetry than ever! Over the 2018-19 school year, I’ve written and workshopped a lot more full-length poetry. For these next posts, I’ll take some poem excerpts to collage with, and post the whole poem underneath. I performed this piece for my spring Spoken Arts show, and it’s […]
Very Real: Stefano’s Egg Salad
Stefano has many things which he cloisters away inside the stomach of a big swamp fish. Last time I checked, I found the following: An eye that has been disguised as a deviled egg. (But don’t be fooled, it still works.) Eight legs. More than enough children. (He them he loves them all equally, but he […]
Very Real: Meet Maurice
Maurice is my friend who lives in the deep swamp. He eats bark and drinks swamp water. Come down to the swamp this Tuesday and you might find him taking an unorthodox chomp out of the side of a tree. Come on a Wednesday and he will be enjoying the noble game of lacrosse and listening […]
Meme Team: Meet the Team!
Are you someone who loves to look at art? Are you someone who loves memes? Are you obssessive about the characters you read about, follow and watch? Then this is the place for you! Welcome to the Meme Team! This column will be about my original characters and how their personalities can be explained through […]
Very Real: A Leafy Perimeter
Have you ever wanted to live in a bustling city, but didn’t want to miss out on the typical American Dream of the house in the suburbs with a green lawn, a succulent tomato bush, and a trophy husband? Well, look no further, because I have the solution for you! Very soon, a city like no […]
Very Real: Fish at the Disco
Watch out kids, The Disco is coming to town. For this drawing, I wanted to make use of the different brushes that light up in Tilt Brush. Below, I have highlighted a few of the fish from my disco-process. The first fish I created was a blue fish with bell bottom trousers. This fashionable fellow is […]
Very Real: It’s a Frog World After All…
Welcome to Frog City! I have just completed my very first image using Google’s Tilt Brush and boy, was that an experience. You can watch a walkthrough of the image below: Frog City was a way for me to learn and get used to the different controls and brushes in Tilt Brush. In particular, I […]
Pumpernickel Party: Group 5
December is a month full of pain. It’s a time when students have panic attacks, it’s a time when people catch frost bite, and it’s a time when people go broke. Below are some quotes to acknowledge everyone’s shared pain. “We can talk about mental breakdowns later.” “I feel like teens nowadays have noisier joints […]
Pumpernickel Party: Group Three
When you feel sad and confused do you wish for a wise old man to show you the way? Below I have advice an old wise man would likely give. “When pricks talk shit, that’s called ‘cactusing’” “You know the center of a bagel? This is nothing.” “People are working twenty four seven to make […]
Where the Two Worlds Meet: Motherland
English Interview Name: Rosa Age: 48 Relationship to me: Mom 1) What are you most proud of? To have been born in Mexico. I’m not really sure how to explain it. 2) What are you most ashamed of? That I’ve been in the United States for quite some time and I still can’t speak English. […]