There has not been a day in my life where I did not create something. I am always seeing everything in a different light or different meaning. I take in inspiration from everyday things such as how someone walks and try to figure out a way to incorporate those images or movements into my dance. I have always lived and breathed dancing. It is my way of expressing my feelings and letting my creative side run wild. A deep connection with the audience or just trying to change a simple move into a complex one is my main goal. I enjoy content that makes the audience's mind think and try to think deeper into what is really being viewed or heard. As an artist, it was easy to make the audience second guess what they know. I have always been interested in this sort of mind changing art and try to put these techniques into my own art. I am an artist and will forever be one.
I may just be a media management major but I will always want to be involved in the creative side of this industry. I am always interested in music. Every aspect of making a record interests me but I am the most interested in the lyrics. No matter what the background noise is I mainly listen to what is being said and how it is being said. There has been one man that has always been able to inspire me in his career and that is the clever and witty, John Mayer.
John has always been able to touch my soul and muster up feelings that I may not want to feel or do want to feel. His ironic and sometimes misdirecting text make a simple song seem innocent but they are really about something entirely different. There are so many examples such as “Assassin.” The listener may think that the song is about an assassin by these lyrics, “I was a killer, was the best they’d ever seen” but then he hits you with, “I’d steal your heart before you ever heard a thing.” Even the video makes him appear to be an assassin but then it shakes up the viewer's brain. He is truly talking about being able to break hearts but the name of the song is misdirecting you and making you think deeper into what the song is truly talking about. His work has always made me think deeper into what I want to say and how to turn words into art. I would love to get inside of his head and learn how he can turn something so simple into something complex. He is truly an artist.
From the minute that The Thin Red Line started, I was amazed. This movie is truly a film a viewer will never forget. Terrence Malick changes a scene into a feeling. His unique way to film a scene is what truly hit me as an artist. He does not simply put images on the screen but makes the audience feel they are there. For example in many of the scenes in The Thin Red Line, there is no action or diegetic noises it was just a solider and what their thoughts were at the moment. The Thin Red Line has a constant feeling of tension. Just playing what the soldiers are thinking is one way that he cranks up the tension in the film. This is when he uses silence to create tension and then when he finally lets the tension release, one minute later there will be even heavier tension. The one aspect of the film that struck me the most is that he could make the audience feel the same feeling that the character was feeling just by his cinematography. His work is a reason that I changed my major. He is very creative and is not like any other artists I can think of. He draws you in and keeps you in the story and when the film is done you feel that you belonged with the characters and the story.
As a dancer, I can fully understand and am inspired by this great story. Darren Aronofsky has portrayed the life of a dancer perfectly. This is another example of a story appearing to be one idea and then changes into something that is entirely different. Ballet has always been seen as light, airy, and easy but in this film he touches on the completely different side of the spectrum, the dark side. During the entire movie, everything appears to be objective and Natalie Portman’s character is just a dancer that is trying to be the principal dancer. What the viewer will soon realize is that the movie is truly subjective. By the end the viewer will be questioning what truly happened to her and change the reality of the viewer. Darren Aronofsky is genius in the way that he can lead a viewer down one road and then the viewer will notice that they are on a totally different road. This movie is a piece of art and is an example of what hard work can give you. The movie has been in the works for around 4 years and is masterpiece in my eyes.
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