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The Celtic knot of Gestalt written @ 9:32 PM on March 31, 2003 I think I chipped a tooth. Well, maybe not the actual tooth part, but part of the enamel. I can't even tell you how it happened. Yes, the fact that I chipped part of my tooth enamel is important enough that it merits a diary entry! It disappoints me because in the fourth grade I read in our 1978 health book that tooth enamel was supposed to be harder than bone. I feel like I've been lied to! The tooth kind of feels funny now. I should probably call my mom about it, but then I would just be a hypochondriac. Or is it hyperchondriac? It makes more sense to say "hyper," because that's what the person is being, but people who speak English talk so fast that it sounds "hypo" or "hyp'chondriac." Maybe people in general don't really know so it sounds "hyp'chondriac," and because no one else seems to know, everyone assumes that because the first person said it, the first person is more intelligent than what he or she really is! Yeah, I think about these things. It occurred to me today that English-speaking people fall over their words and grammar a lot. And it's not just because of laziness or disorders-- I think the English language is complicated enough that stuttering and tripping over words is pretty normal. I do it a lot. My consonants get slurred, partly because my brain goes faster than I talk and partly because the word I am speaking at the time is complicated-- if you really study the word. Sometimes I switch the vowels in a word around, but perhaps that's a form of dyslexia. Yeah, I feel sorry for anyone who has to study English as a second language. I mean, most of the educated world is learning the language and getting through it as it is, but still. Well, maybe it's because most Americans are ignorant. Maybe I'm ignorant. After all, I couldn't even tell you if it's hyper- or hypochondriac. *** Over all, my day went well. I felt another urge to kill the ignorant fool called Ben in my English class-- because now he decided that he was intelligent enough to talk about art. He couldn't even get his facts about war straight, and now he considers himself a guru on the philosophies behind painting, particularly abstract painting! A guy who sits a couple of seats down from Ben is beginning to smile at me more and more as he watched me wince and squirm in the face of such stupidity-- after all, I'm the one sitting closest to Ben, and everytime his mouth opens, I feel my IQ drop slightly. I do have a tendancy of shooting daggers in his direction; maybe that's why Ben never looks at me. But I'm being shallow now. It has taken me all semester to realize that only I can place some notion of interest in the boring projects we do in my 3-D Design class. I never thought myself to be cut out for 3-D art, but my projects thus far have been considerably more original than what I produced in 2-D last semester. Methinks that will help with my scenic design career. In any case, in our latest project, we are making abstract module forms out of bristol board and then constructing them in either a transformational way or an interesting structural composition-- both of which must stress the concept of artistic unity. I have chosen the interesting structural composition route. At first, I thought about making interesting modules and twisting them into a Mobeus knot-like strip, but then I realized what better way to achieve unity and balance than through a form as complicated as a 3-D Celtic knot? I mean, that's why the Celts created such wonderul designs, isn't it? It was all about unity! Of course, this means I have thrown myself head first into another project in which I may possibly bite off more than I can chew-- what else is new?-- but think of the possibilities and how cool it would be if I finish it well! Well, to an artist, it's the little things that count in life, because the little things eventually add up to the big picture. So say the laws of Gestalt.
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