Love and Passion

Flash Fiction And Artist Statement

              Why? Why did you hit the ball so hard? What would you expect to happen? Why didn’t you listen? If you would have listened you would’ve probably not regret it. You hit that ball so hard over the net that day you couldn’t believe it. You were doing so well, you scored your team a goal, it made you feel loved hearing your teammates cheer and your family cheer. But when you walked to that penalty spot and hit that ball over the net you didn’t feel love anymore. You blamed yourself. When your captain told you if you wanted to take the penalty you could have said no. You wanted to prove yourself because people look down on you but you just proved that your just a mess up. You thought everyone was disappointed in you. You cried after the game because this is the sport you love and have a passion for. You felt empty. You lost your confidence. Professional players miss penalties. Don’t worry about it. Remember your successes not your failures. After all its just one game, you’ll get through this.

Artist Statement

           My images and writing is showing and describing a personal event I’ve had playing soccer the sport I’m passionate of. The first image shows me looking down at my soccer ball on the penalty spot in front of the goal and the second picture  I’m trying to show how I felt being on that penalty spot, the nerves and self-doubt. The text is trying to show a picture in your head of how I thought it was the end of the world and that disappointment on myself. The picture of me with the ball at the penalty spot and the writing work together the same way in that they’re both based on the penalty spot and the picture with the ball in my hands work the same way in that it goes with the writing in that self-doubting/disappointed way. Perspectives has influenced my self portrait in a way that people may look and see certain things differently and in my writings over the semester, seeing responses of what people thought of, it was just kind of cool I guess.

Reflection

         People may think of personality and perspectives as hard to comprehend but easy to do in day to day life. For example, someone may see something in the clouds that looks like a dog but from someone else’s perspective they might see it as something completely different. They might think of things this way because of events that maybe happened in their lifetime with the things they have seen or maybe in with their dreams.

Nicolas Cole, wrote an article on perspectives called, “Change Your Perspective, Change Your Life” and he talks about how there is “nothing right or wrong” and that “you are successful when you are walking your path, always learning, always growing. You are doing what you love when you see every moment as an opportunity. It's on you to discover what that opportunity is” (Cole).

I my mind, I think of personality as everyone is different but to a certain extent. No one looks at things the same way or takes things being said the same way unless they have been grown up in the type of environment where those things being said are normal to them or the things they see are normal to them as well. But every person has some sort of characteristic that makes themselves different from everyone else.