Week 9 - Brittany - Letting it Happen

This week, these photos reminded me that although we can try to forcefully create something beautiful, sometimes it just happens on its own. This served as a good reminder at a perfect time for me with New Slate coming up. As I tried to refine my piece for New Slate, I sometimes found myself frustrated with trying to run the dance over and over again until it was "perfect." I felt nervous for most of the week about my piece -- always feeling like I needed more time and more rehearsals. These photos served as perfectly timed reminders for me that sometimes just laying back and letting something work itself out creates something beautiful. I've been so stressed the last week that I found myself stressing over every little thing. I was overthinking everything, including finding a "good" photo for this blog. As I power-walked through graduate housing on my way to take a Laban Movement Analysis quiz, I actually walked right past the wall with the reflections of light on it. After a few steps past it, I ran back to snap a quick photo. I was searching so hard for the perfect photo that I almost missed a great opportunity. This photo makes me feel good though; it is bright and beautiful, and its simplicity is actually quite satisfying to look at. Maybe if I relax a bit this week, I will find the beauty in things that I would otherwise miss or simply rush past. Seeing everyone's projects in lighting class makes me appreciate things I never noticed before. The sky, the reflection of natural light onto a wall, the subtle mystery of fog: they are all things I've seen before in my life but I never noticed them. This class has taught me to not necessarily look harder but just to open my eyes to the possibilities that light brings to the world.

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  1. Lonnie AlcarazDecember 1, 2019 at 5:21 PM

    A truly wonderful post - I completely agree that while we need to research and work hard, we also need to let go, meditate, free our mind and let things come

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