Personal Reflection collage
Now I'm free, free to be me. I am free to read, watch movies and just enjoy life. I'm free to drink all the coffee my nervous system can handle while watching the autumn leaves fall.
For every moment leading up to now, I've had the weight of being the daughter and friend and student that was expected of me, the person that I was labeled at a young age. Now I’m doing something new, something unlabeled and something true. I'm starting anew, letting me leaves fall, reenergizing and learning who I am to become who I want to be-- evermore growing.
Architecture will always be a part of me and my grow. From HGTV on Saturday mornings to architecture in my sculpture class to architecture classes in college. As I’ve grown so has my love architecture, and my love was with me in my visit to France and my car rides through my hometown and I hope it will stay.
I will be free, free to be me. Free to read, watch movies and just enjoy life. Free to drink all the coffee my nervous system can handle while watching the autumn leaves fall.
Every moment is leading up to my future, I will no longer be dragging the weight of being the daughter and friend and student that was expected of me, the person that I was labeled at a young age. I will be doing something new, something unlabeled and something true to me. I won’t be new by learning who I am to become who I want to be—still, evermore growing.
Architecture will always be a part of me and my grow. From architecture classes in college to who I will become. As I grow up, so has my love architecture, and my love will be with me in my travels and adventures and my car rides.
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Abbie Trayler-Smith. A Pigeon Stands among the Leaves of London’s Hyde Park in Late Autumn. 2008. https://jstor.org/stable/community.12112816.
Christopher Anderson. BRAZIL. Santos. 2002. Coffee Is “Cupped” by the Brokerage Houses in Order to Test Beans’ Quality. Samples of the Coffee Are Roasted, Brewed and Then Tasted by an Experienced Taster. n.d. https://jstor.org/stable/community.30336656.
Charles Soulier (French, 1840–1875) (artist). Notre Dame de Paris. early 1860s. Albumen print from glass negative, Image: 38 x 30.6 cm (14 15/16 x 12 1/16 in.); Matted: 71.1 x 61 cm (28 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Collection: Photography; Department: Photography; John L. Severance Fund. https://jstor.org/stable/community.24619378.
Leon Kamir. Woman Reading (La Lecture). 1921. Pastel on grey-beige paper, 78.5 x 58.5 cm. Musée d’Orsay. Réunion des Musées Nationaux (RMN). Artstor. https://jstor.org/stable/community.15678720.
Frank, Robert (American, born Switzerland, 1924-). Drive-In Movie, Detroit from the Series The Americans. 1955. Gelatin silver print, 11 x 13 15/16 in. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Gift of Jerry E. and Nanette Finger. https://jstor.org/stable/community.12057451.
Eliot Furness Porter, Male, 1901, 1990, and Winnetka (Illinois, United States). Running Water, Roaring Fork Road, Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee, October 10. 1967. Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University. https://jstor.org/stable/community.3886329.
Andy Warhol (American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker, 1928-1987). Unidentified Woman. undated. Gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Duke University; Gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. . https://jstor.org/stable/community.18063826.
Thomas Jefferson (American statesman, architect, and draftsman, 1743-1826). University of Virginia. Jefferson Drawing #19. Pavillion VII. 1817-1826. 11 1/2 inches x 8 3/4 inches. University of Virginia. Library. https://jstor.org/stable/community.14618719.
Johann Georg Meyer (1813 - 1880). Girl Reading. n.d. Oil on panel, 9 in. x 6 3/4 in. (22.86 cm x 17.15 cm). Bowdoin College Museum of Art; Gift of the Misses Harriet Sarah and Mary Sophia Walker. https://jstor.org/stable/community.22602543.
Chris Steele-Perkins. Personal. ITALY. 2007. Brescia Exhibition Opening Night. Wine Glass. 2007. https://jstor.org/stable/community.9727550.
