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It’s simple I realise but I just like this. I started writing something poetic on the bus but I decided it was shit so I drew flowers over it.
Mr. Marshall in year 12 media killed my love of film.
But then meeting super cool uni friends sort of made me fall in love with it again.
So I was mulling in my head this idea last night. But it’s really weird and I don’t want to tell anyone so I’m telling you tumblr.
Theres this art student and she’s going a little crazy over her ‘final piece’, trying to come up with an idea that’s really innovative and unique but she keeps coming across brick walls. It all seems pointless and shes questioning the purpose of art for art sake and she doesn’t seem to care about anything anymore. It opens with a scene of her in her flat with a close pan left across empty paint water jars and then behind the jars is this creepy bug eyed girl. Followed by loads of different shots of her doing silly things like throwing glitter about or sticking a prit-stick to the wall then watching it slowly fall off to emphasize she has no freaking clue what to do at all. Ends with a shot of the blank canvas.
Then a conversation with her flat mate who is this massive nobhead, who has done something really post-modern like drawn a dot on a napkin and he makes some bull shit up about it being about the eastern revolution and all while he’s gabbing she accidently mistakes her paint water for her cup of tea and spits it out. Having exhausted the conversation she grabs her coat and leaves. Then I want it to go all surreal and its like an adventure where she “steps into” lots of different famous pieces of art work and has conversations with the different portraits as to why she is so blocked by her ideas, like she has a really depressing coffee in a bar like in starry night and is picking at a poppy in a monet.
Then I don’t know.
But I want it to end with her wiping up some paint water with her flat mates ‘master piece’.
Drew this in the s.u a few weeks back, I ADORE how it turned out. I feel good about this style. Pirates are cool.
Monsters belong under your bed and inside cupboards and lurking in the shadows and in the woods and those places your parents tell you never to go. Not inside your head. Go back to scaring four year olds. Not me.
So lately I forgot why I like theatre, so I made a list of things I like to do.
Things I enjoy
1. Making people laugh, laughing myself, general happiness.
2. Colour and texture, I like deciding the visuals of something and the ‘ambience’
3. Telling and hearing stories, analysing stories, especially creating whole worlds.
4. Working with children
5. Listening to peoples problems and giving advice.
6. Devising theatre (except my grade sucked and it’s the one thing I loved boo hoo.)
7. Language and words, but not writing as I can’t write anymore. I like analysing other peoples work.
8. Ridiculousness, satire, turning things on their heads, bit backwards.
9. Burlesque, filth, nudity, and vulgarity.
10. Cute, quirky, stories with a bon iver sound-track and courier typography.
11. Mixed medium things, bit of theatre, bit of film, bit of sound, live and not live, mashed together. I like the sensory ‘experience’, touch and taste and all that jazz.
12. Something that isn’t presenting answers, but just exploring the world we already live in.
now I need to remember these things and throw all my energies into peter pan. Oh creative world, I’m losing my mind. Maybe theatre can’t change lives but it has always made me feel better and I need to remember that.
My creativity has been very bleak previous to the past two weeks, I’ve decided to do more cute doodles and such. I drew lots of cute things of my friends, I’ve adapted a new style I like. ALSO HOW BADASS IS THIS FONT.
I GET A NEW LAPTOP TOMORROW TOO! and it has a new photoshop and and loads of cool things on it so expect more from me.
It has no eyes because I find eyes hard to draw and I drew several kinds and none suit him but yes. This is hook. I enjoyed this, it’s just a rough thing but not all art has to be a masterpiece.
So yeh I started creating wall mural with intentions of annoying my halls, or maybe to manifest all the pretty images in my head, or to pass the time rather than doing an essay or worrying about silly things. I like it. I think everyone should draw. Always.