Blog 4: Reflection Film 1&2 - What did you discover about yourself as an artist through this process?

I don’t think that I discovered anything about myself as an artist that was surprising. I knew that sorts of projects aren’t my forte, and although I really like abstract and ambiguous short films and I can appreciate what Brakhage and others accomplish with these methods, I don’t know how to create that way. I’m used to expressing myself and telling stories through moving pictures with a more conventional approach (actors, script, three-act structure, etc.) I did have fun though, especially with the animation. 

When I was little I wanted to be a cartoonist and I made flash animations all the time in middle school. But I haven’t gotten any better at drawing and I’m too impatient to do it anymore anyway. That being said, it was fun drawing crashing waves and drowning stick figures.