an open space

here are some ideas I have for me book. I was thinking about making a childrens book based on these pictures I took of animals at the wild animal park. As I spent hours walking around and looking at all of the different animals, it saddened me that these animals were known as wild, yet the space they were given was in between these bars. Most of the animals are endangered and it is probably great that they are here at the park, being taken care of, and used for scientific study, but I couldn’t get over this empty feeling I had inside my heart for them. They are wild, let them be wild. As a child I remember loving to go to the animal park, or the zoo, but as an adult the feeling isn’t the same.  so i transformed the pictures a bit using photoshop to give them the

tonight I witnessed a dance work-in-progess. Sarah Shelton Mann in collaboration with local artists, two of which are professors at this school. The majority of the dance was improvisational as well as the sound and the lighting. it was like watching something being created right before my eyes. as the music changed, some of the dancers’ movements adapted to the tone of the room, the lighting and the sound combined, as well as being influenced by all the other dancers moving. Each dancer/person/being all brought something different to the stage, each person had their own piece that exemplified maybe something that had happened in a period of their life, or maybe a feeling they were trying to portray/express. After the performance we stayed and talked with Sarah Mann and her fellow collaborators. They spoke about their process and were really interested to see what our opinion(the audience) was.