Epiphany #2 August 31, 2013

In the second meeting of art class, our teacher passed out black squares of construction paper and instructed us to cut them into pieces and to reassemble them with various intentions:  reassemble as a square, destroy a square, reverse the design, or assemble “5 easy pieces”.  As I sat at the worktable during class, I attempted a variety of shapes and arrangements that I thought were expected of me, but I ultimately found myself shrugging off what I thought I should do and instead simply halved the squares and resulting rectangles into increasingly smaller quadrangles and using these as the bits of the composition.  Simple, logical, the essence of “me”. 

And so, within that first week of art class, I learned two important lessons:  be patient, something will bubble to the surface, and trust what you know to be true for you.