A piece about a place: "Open"

This piece is about a lovely, lovely place. It's an abstracted depiction of the physics patio outside of my favorite building on Westmont's campus, Winter Hall. The drawings are variations on the floor plan of the patio, and the same curves are echoed in the layers. 

Sigh. This place... Such a view of the ocean. Such a sense of expansiveness. Such a vista for sunsets. Such a haven...

 I almost don't want to tell you about it, because it's such a delicious secret. 

The Expanded Version of "Open"

I took the opportunity to improve this piece by adding additional elements to it. I was trying to give it more of a feeling of expansiveness.

Oh, Albert... always so wise

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

― Albert Einstein

Diagram a Movie

This is a two part diagram of the movie "500 Days of Summer." The numbers in parenthesis indicate days on which important events in Tom and Summer's relationship occurred. However, the movie does not tell the story chronologically... rather, viewers are given scattered scenes out of order. To make sense of this, the movie incorporates a screen with a drawing of this bench/view (a significant place for them) and the day of the scene in advance. The arrows in the diagram indicate how the movie actually unfolds in relation to the chronology of their relationship.

An additional element, drawn on a sheet of transparent acetate, graphs both Summer's belief (or lack of belief) in love, and Tom's belief (or lack of belief) in love. The intersection of the two graphs happens when Tom loses his idealism and confidence in love, & Summer meets someone who makes her believe in love.

If you've never seen this movie... WATCH IT.

Havaii

to intentionally create mutual memories for the fostering of camaraderie & esprit de corps