Week #2 - Jackie - Inspiration here, inspiration there, inspiration everywhere!

Inspiration is vital, as an artist, it keeps you going; it keeps you creating. Stopping to study the area around me is something, or taking pictures of things I find cool/inspiring is something I try to do every day. Inspiration can be found all around us, it is our duty to stop and admire it for at least a second. 

As simple as it sounds, pops of color in everyday sights and situations are what make my eyes sparkle and make me feel incredibly inspired.

Life can be very theatrical, with that being said, we should be the main character in each one of our “shows” and to see eye-catching lighting or pops of color in an everyday space is what makes me feel special, inspired like I am the “main character”(hopefully, that makes sense), and like an LD is lighting my life as I go living it. For example, seeing the glow of a neon sign spill onto a dark, glistening sidewalk during a rainy night or in this case, seeing a beaming bright blue emergency light stretch across a small warmly lit apartment courtyard fills my heart with joy. 

I took this as I was panic-walking and talking to one of my friends about something weird that has been happening to me recently. I ended up in this intimate courtyard filled with a lot of trees, and shrubbery which cast some interesting shadows and textures on the floor. The warm, yellow-tinted light coming from the front of the apartments gave off a comforting, and inviting feel. A saturate blue radiates from the left, it illuminates the tree trunks, leaves, and part of the apartment walls. It reminds me of the effect that pipe ends give which is conflicted although this is looking to be a subtler take on it. It allowed me to reflect on what was going through my chaotic brain and make me realize that, again, life can be a theatrical place, so get through your scene, everything is going to be okay. Just tell me who designed this cue, because I absolutely love it. 






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  1. Lonnie AlcarazOctober 10, 2021 at 9:15 PM

    I am so glad that after a year of seeing your blog posts we finally get to see you light what you talk so eloquently about :). Nice image and in depth post!

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