Week 15 - Book & Final Portfolio Link

Inside My Mind Book Link
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/inside-my-mind/9737738

 

 

Final Portfolio Link

http://bsykes-finalportfolio.blogspot.com/

Week 14 - Series 11

The name of this poem is called "Soul Searching for Direction". If you look closely behind the type you will see the philosophical figure "The Thinker". The purpose of him being behind the type is to do just what his name says which is to think. The goal in this thinking is to discern the realities and fallacies of life. One would read the poem to ponder hard on the directions they have taken. Examining ourselves to make sure that we don't make the same foolish mistakes twice. Also digging deep to find the best qualities within us. Until we look at life for what it is we can never make decisions that will change us for the better. This calls for the phrase in the poem, "only to find comfort in a fictitious past time lapse". Essentially avoiding reality makes us run in circles. I wrote this poem to remind us that we constantly need to run a diagnostic test on ourselves like we do cars. Making sure that we remove the parts that serve no benefit,  find out what we truly need to run effeciently, and then repair the problems in our lives so that we live better lives. This peom was done in Adobe Illustrator. 

Week 13 - Series 10

This poem was created to basically summarize the series. It is called "Welcome to My World". In writing this poem I wanted to convey step by step what the man in the series was going through. Delivering a means of written travel to flesh out his journey from the enslavement of trials and tribulations, to the peak of salvation, and ending in his rebirth to a new being. It is also a proclamation of triumph, in which he is given his receipt for the time he paid in pain. That pain has not broken him, but that it has transformed him into possibly something much greater. Herein lies his testament to the escape from mental and physical perils of life.

Week 12 - Series 9

The picture shown is the capturing of his titled "Rebirth". When a person has gone throuh a change it can be compared to child pregnancy. Both beautiful situations where the shaping of a humans life is of the greatest importance, but at the same time both can be an agonizing process. In changing ones life, time mus be taken to reminisce over the current past events. There has to be an understanding that we have honestly learned from these situations in a positive way. If not, then the whole process has to begin again due to the lack of understanding or matured wisdom that is given with the responsibility of change. So he is seen in the stomach of a woman, who is portrayed to be life. The beautiful moment in life when it seems time stops; where you can catch your breath to think. In this piece, is where the use of the philosophical figure "The Thinker" comes into play. In this moment in life, the greatest ability man has is used to decide what sort of man he shall be. Change is not solely based on what we go through, but in the end what do we ultimately decide to become. Do we choose to be a greater being fashioned from the fires of life or do we seek to be stagnant allowing the fire to destroy our will of any hope for the better? This piece was done in Adobe Illustrator.

Week 11 - Series 8

This piece was a drawing of my friend when we went to Osaka Gardens. Its called "Thinking at Osaka Gardens". I went to this park to find some peace and this was the outcome. For me it represents through the line work that everything has a flow. Not a flow of disruption ,but a natural peaceful order to things. Everything moving in its own specific timing, without disturbance from the "outside" (troubled) world. I believe that everyone has that specific place that they go to that reaches far beyond the sometimes stressful restraints of life. for me this was that place. I didn’t want to use color because I wanted to see how much of the picture could be fleshed out with just the Micron pen.The end result was a detailed capturing of that peaceful moment in time. THis was done in pencil and Micron Pen.