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Reflect + Write

Emerging Themes/Ideas

Memories/Lost Memories

  • Phoebe’s ELI5 and Show Don’t Tell (The struggle of remembering something truthfully, whatever that means)
  • John’s 5/50 “Short Term Memory (I love the line: I forgot what the stars looked like”, and it seems to be its own sort of theme; it’s cropped up in several juxtapositions)
  • My 5/50 “Peter” (“It’s so much easier to just…forget)

 

Myths/Legends

  • Gabrielle’s 5/50 “Icarus”
  • Molly’s 5/50 “The Origin of Love”
  • My 5/50’s “Orpheus” and “Arthur”
  • Molly’s 5/50 “Adam and Eve” and Paige’s Juxtaposition

 

Audience Participation (This appeared in many forms, both intentional and unintentional, in really interesting ways, and with varying degrees of audience agency)

  • Carina’s Juxtaposition “Human Again”
  • My Federalist Papers Show Don’t Tell
  • Rearragning the letters in Gabrielle’s name from her 5/50
  • Phoebe’s pokemon trading cars in her juxtaposition
  • Bailey’s eating of bread and honey/oil in 5 Senses
  • Paige’s counting game in Show Don’t Tell
  • Creating a map with Molly’s Show Don’t Tell

 

Things I’m interested from what I’ve made

  • Federalist Papers Show Don’t Tell: I was fascinated in how the reading of the papers escalated so violently, even though I’d given no instruction for that to happen.
  • 5/50 “Peter- Glitter”: Flushing the glitter down the drain was both incredibly violent and a little sad to me, sort of a distortion of beauty that I found interesting

Things I found interesting from what others have made

  • Carina’s Show Don’t Tell performance: there was something heart wrenching and terrifying about watching her run back and forth across the street in the cold and wind, but I also recognized my own hesitation to go out to help, which I think spotlighted an interesting problem of being an audience member.
  • Kimmy’s Juxtaposition: I liked seeing how images that had brought humor before could be twisted and changed to make something so tragic.
  • John’s Hotels Across the Country: There is something simple and beautiful about a homemade map that I really love, particularly one that feels like it belongs to people who are going somewhere, or have been somewhere together.