Another painting in our apartment is called Convergence by Jackson Pollock. Pollock, an artist that mastered the technique of splattering paint across a canvas, almost makes viewers dizzy with the array of paint that is dripped, splashed, and sloshed around in this masterpiece. I know that it even feels dizzy making this type of art, as my mother, cousin, and I made some of these types of “drip paintings” as they are called, before I went to high school.   Using simple, monotone, primary colors of white, black, red, yellow, and blue for his palette, Pollock throws the paint at the canvas, creating a “convergence” of vivid, vibrant colors that have been suddenly strewn together into lines that are hair thin, that are thick, and that are every shape and size in between.   With this unique method of assembling paint on a canvas, diversity is created. And as […]

  Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.   Time   You can call it an idiom or you can call it a cliché, but I like to call “Time flies” a pithy adage. The two words, for me, is a truth in transience.   Inception   Four years ago in the summer of 2011, after graduating Valedictorian, Student Council President, and one of the two student speakers at commencement, from Michigan City High School in the spring, and before coming to Valparaiso University as a freshman in the fall, my mother, father, and I took a trip to Washington, D.C.     We stayed at the L’Enfant Plaza Hotel, “A family and pet friendly hotel.” The name of the hotel, comes from a man named Pierre, or “Peter,” L’Enfant, who was an architect and mastermind behind the design of Washington, D.C. It felt fitting, my first time in the District, to stay […]