Sunday, May 31, 2015
Weightlessness
This piece I made for the Shared Spaces show at Nazareth College. It speaks about the feeling of lightness that I experience when I make images. The fleeting moments that disappear into a space I often don't visit.
TEDx Flour City; Branching Out
TEDx Flour City 2015
Quite literally a life-changing event for at least one person-- me.
Facing the most pressure-laden part of my year, and grappling with what I can only describe as burnout or disenchantment with my teaching life, I attended my first TEDx Event. Starting with a conversation with experienced coffee roasters and makers, I drank my first enjoyable cup of black coffee.
Thought the rest of the day was equally enlightening, the most significant moment occurred when I realized that somehow, in all of this networking and idea sharing, I was myself.
OK. So that sounds like what Andrea Holland described as "the feels." Honestly, I felt like I was not alone in my ardent desire to make a mark on the world that would be important and help other people. From learning about measuring the distance of dark matter in the universe to storycorps-- an archive of private interviews between millions of people, I felt like if I dropped a pebble into the pond, someone might see the ripple and drop another one.
Perhaps I will contribute my own verse in the future. For now, I will relish in my day of brain massage and positive energy of other humans like me who want to do something to make the world a better place in ways big and small.
Quite literally a life-changing event for at least one person-- me.
Facing the most pressure-laden part of my year, and grappling with what I can only describe as burnout or disenchantment with my teaching life, I attended my first TEDx Event. Starting with a conversation with experienced coffee roasters and makers, I drank my first enjoyable cup of black coffee.
Thought the rest of the day was equally enlightening, the most significant moment occurred when I realized that somehow, in all of this networking and idea sharing, I was myself.
OK. So that sounds like what Andrea Holland described as "the feels." Honestly, I felt like I was not alone in my ardent desire to make a mark on the world that would be important and help other people. From learning about measuring the distance of dark matter in the universe to storycorps-- an archive of private interviews between millions of people, I felt like if I dropped a pebble into the pond, someone might see the ripple and drop another one.
Perhaps I will contribute my own verse in the future. For now, I will relish in my day of brain massage and positive energy of other humans like me who want to do something to make the world a better place in ways big and small.
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