Materialities of Writing #4

Future in Writing

 Between writing on a piece of paper and on a computer, I can not say I prefer one over the other. Both have good reasons to use them as writing implements and I happen to enjoy both of them. I think it is important to be able to write and write legibly, even though I’m not always the easiest to read, which is why sometimes I prefer writing rather than typing. But there are times where I just feel like drawing, sometimes nothing in particular. As a kid I always liked getting the crayons and something to color at a kid-friendly restaurant. They would always keep me occupied because it was like I was able to bring these pictures to life with colors. I always tried as hard as I could to stay in the lines,  however on occasion I’d let myself go outside just for the sake of more coloring.
                I am really interested in using color, not necessarily crayons, in my work to give it more of an authentic feel to it. Through the posters I learned that you can determine many things from the colors the author choose. Most notably the mood the author could have been in when writing. Good moods would be represented by bright, vibrant colors while somber moods would be met with dark, dreary colors. A mix of colors could mean different things. The order the colors are in could tell if the author was in a good mood and getting worse while writing it or in a bad mood and getting better. They could also represent the tone of the story, much the same way like the mood. I’d like to see how to better incorporate imagery in my work to accurately portray what I want to get across.

Materialities of Writing # 3

Culture Shock

A culture using only crayons wouldn’t be to much different from out society. Crayons are used to give light and character to works of literature in art, so I think that this society would have much a much more vibrant culture where colors can often have deeper meanings. Writing and the arts in this culture would probably be emphasized more than in ours. I think that in this society a person’s ability to write and combine colors would determine how smart they were considered rather than their knowledge of math and science. This would give the other society a different perspective on a lot of things. For example,  their culture may hold authors and writers to a higher esteem than doctors and lawyers. I would be very interested in observing a culture where crayons are the only writing implements. It might cause me to to view subjects in a different light and I would like to see the outcome of a society that caters to the creative and artistic rather than the rich and famous. Even though I am not really fond of using crayons I enjoy seeing what they can create given the “right” hand.

Materialities of Writing #2

 Peer's Poster

There were many interesting posters made about the response of the readers. The posters had a variety of  different colors and patterns that expressed the individuality of the people who created them. Some posters had different color paragraphs to vary the color while others had their paragraphs aligned slightly differently, whether it was to the side or one of the paragraphs were slanted. One of the posters that stood out to me was the poster that had the crayon over the pencil. It gave the poster a texture and style that I found interesting and different from the others. Also, I found it interesting how someone had their paragraphs in increasingly brighter colors. I liked these posters because they were original and each had their own unique characteristic which helps define the person who created them.

Materialities of writing #1

Writing in Crayon

I found writing the whole response in crayon to be a bit tedious. Trying to write legibly in crayon without any lines proved to be a little difficult for me.  Before thinking about  what to write, I took time to think about how long it would actually take me to get my point across in a clear way because I knew that it might be difficult to write with a crayon for an extended period of time.  After that I went about my business as usual. I drafted a first copy on my computer and then copied it onto the paper with the crayon.  I thought about how I could relate what I want to say to the color that I had picked and think I did it pretty well.  I would never not write something simply because it was to hard, if I thought it is a good idea I’m going to write, so I knew that writing this would probably take me a little longer than a regular writing assignment but I kind of enjoyed it because it got me to think in a different way for a change. I was looking to match emotion with color which I do not normally get to do and it also helped that the poem was very insightful and I was able to pull a lot away from Emily Dickinson