Daring
A friend of mine developed a f.a.n.t.a.s.t.i.c. curriculum to help people analyze the ways that Hollywood portrays American culture in order to help us better understand our own cultural biases and belief systems. He’s leading a class of adults through the material right now. There was no way Andy and I could make the weekly meetings at this particular moment in our lives, so we are doing our own (delayed) home study version. Tonight we watched the 1988 film “Mississippi Burning.”
The curriculum poses perfect questions that are simple in a way that forces me straight to the terrible point. (Not “terrible” as in bad or awful, but as in serious and intense.) I have yet to figure out how to share anything on this blog about this whole realm my brain lives in, so for now I will just post the movies we watch as we watch them.
I completed this sketch prompt just before watching the movie. Feels a bit like Lala Land now…
Sketch prompt #80: Daring. One day – out of amusement or frustration (I don’t know which) – I took pictures of every single toy car I could find laying around the main level of our home. I found most of them upside down and when photographed, they looked like they had been involved in important Mission Impossible type adventures that ended in disaster. This little Matchbox car was some old style roadster. (Upon first glance, I feel like this sketch is completely unidentifiable. I thought about opening it up for interpretations first – like looking for objects in clouds. I see a frog doing pushups.)
“To rule oneself outside the common circle of humanity […] is to die.”
– Robert Squillance (Introduction to “The Odyssey”)
