events 02

Core Samples 02 — Sit quietly and comb through your life over ten important events. Make two pieces: one derived from an event and one derived from a person. These should be taken from the image you assigned it in your writing, not directly about the subject.

I became interested in events which reveal and conceal important truths in my life. Some get larger and keep expanding proportionally while others start out huge and get smaller. I viewed these events as moments of awareness which allowed me to see current situations and bring insight to circumstances in my life.

The two main events which I kept focusing on were unfortunate circumstances which had occurred to me this summer. In one incident, I woke up to find a bat flying in my bedroom and in the other incident I fell off of a horse. The bat had started out small and almost insignificant but it exponentially increased in the amount of trouble it brought into my life. A little bat flying over my head ensued in numerous emergency room visits, heath insurance problems, and painful shots. The problems resulting out of this event grew and grew, immensely and violently. The horse incident, on the other hand, was a seemingly huge deal—I blacked out, had a concussion, and found myself in an emergency room. Yet, after this scary initial shake up, the ensuing events quickly diminished in significance. I healed and things gradually subsided.

The other bookwork has wave-like or topography-like cuts. Waves and the architectural topography maps serve as metaphors for gradual, incremental increases and decreases. The rising or lowering of altitude in a topography map represents growth or decline. Change and transformation are conveyed in the stacking of the cuts which are progressively getting larger or smaller. Some cuts start out large and get smaller; others start out small and grow significantly. This form represents how certain events grow larger with problems, while other problems others start out large, and resolve themselves away. These cuts represent events which gradually evolve and change, but constantly affect me.