Creative Growth Projects: Part One

So my creative growth projects are in pictures, so I'll post them up here and then offer an explanation. I understand they were supposed to be different, and I did pictures for both, but really I did pictures on both because it's the easiest way to include it in my journal. Both pieces are very different in some way.


My first piece I think talks a lot about our year in general. The first picture is a picture of a plaque I have on my wall next to my bed. It reads, DREAM.

This means a lot to me in different ways. First of all, I've had bigger and bigger dreams the longer I've stayed at Sturgis because I've experienced so many different things. But more relevant to theatre, it meant to me that before Theatre class I did a lot of dreaming and not much else. I had never really been on stage before as an actress, and while every girl wants to be a movie or tv star, it was just a dream to be performing in front of people.

The second picture is the word, LAUGH.

I think of it like this: so first, I was dreaming. And then I joined theatre, and we certainly laugh-a lot. Something I love about that class is that it's so low key but you can get all your stress out. I can go to Theatre having the worst day and leaving cracking up. That was Stage Two. Stage Three: Imagine.

This is Theatre class! With our first production coming up (Durang Durang) it was easy to imagine being on the stage and seeing all these things coming into motion. Imagine plays a HUGE part in the acting world, and now I was finally experiencing it. And the final stage: Stage Four: BELIEVE.

BELIEVE! It's like, this is my senior year!! The end, the sad, exciting, highly anticipated, never seemed achievable in the beginning, end is almost here! It's pratically staring all of us right in the face. Honestly, I believe in myself now, that I can get through school and I believe that I can act and I believe I can try new things and not be ashamed of myself if I mess up. Dream, Laugh, Imagine, Believe.