Tag: art
Goddamn Money
Adolescent Class Consciousness in Billy Elliot and The Catcher in the Rye
Routine
Poetry written in 2015 (early junior year of HS). Silver Key in National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. The ring of my father’s phone echoes His fingers ballerina against the glass glow. I stare into darkened windows around me but cannot find another human. We move, a machine among machines. Around me, road billboards preach the cult of a…
Ballerina at the Border
A piece inspired by seeing Yo Yo Ma’s Spring 2019 performance at the Mexico-US border in Laredo. Written during a brief episode of lexical-gustatory synesthesia. La placer por la presencia de Yo-Yo-Ma This sentence tastes like a milkshake; it flows playful down the tongue The way water and children descend slides Chocolate milk, foamy cream…
The Fragility of Authentic Love: An Existential Analysis
Loving authentically is a daunting project rife with almost inescapable pitfalls. In this essay, I will first explore Sartre’s novel theory of love developed within his broader phenomenological ontology. Under this theory, the purpose of love is to escape from the Look and the groundlessness of existence. Then, I will critique his understanding from Beauvoir’s…