Response: What's really going on

On the day that we were given pastels for the first time, I felt a real connection to my artwork. I walked into class late but was able to dive right into a list of possible things I could draw. Everything about the picture I drew connected to an emotion I was dealing with at the moment. We went through a list of the types of things people will draw such as telling a story, expressing a feeling, depicts a relationship, depicts oneself and more. Looking back on my art work, I was connecting to multiple aspects of my life through the expression of art. I not only felt connected to my drawing but I was proud of the work that I had done. I had taken a picture of it because of the meaning it provided to me and sent a message saying that things may be unbalanced now but that it is just temporary. I had just moved into the city and beginning school, starting my internship, and working another job. I realized I was barely sleeping where my days turned into nights, into days and I was not fully focused. I also realized that I had no been taking care of myself and that everything happened so quick my mind was running. I decided to depict this by drawing night and day and how they were opposite but slightly meshed. I only drew the yin/yang because I had been watching the TV show Psych where two of the bad guys were called yin and one called yang and it had been stuck in my mind from the night before. It surprised me that all this meaning could be uncovered through a drawing as well as send other messages that I had not realized before. I loved this exercise.