During one of my critiques last quarter, Cayewah mentioned some subtle humor she had seen in one of the pieces I created. She then said that maybe I should push that a little bit. She thought the humor made its self more apparent in my writings than in my work. I hadn't ever really thought about it before. When I look back on some of my previous works, it seems that humor existed more in the assignments that weren't something I liked, or something that I had to rush through because of procrastination or some mental block. I think used it when something started to not be fun. It helps to balance me out when the thinking gets too strenuous. So I'm pushing it. The idea is that if I start out with predisposition to mixing humor in there to aid my ideas, then I'll have something to mentally fall back on when things get rough. Plus, I think it will add a smidgen of approachability to it all. I want to get past anything that seems too snooty to have any wide-ranging audience. It feels freer to let that part of my thinking come out more. This should help me from getting too bogged down in the "artiness" of how I think my pieces will be viewed. I think I get caught up sometimes in making sure my work falls well under the art category. This extra layer certainly doesn't move my work out of the art range. So I'm running with it. Just as long as I don't let the funny take over and forget the underlying ideas, I should be fine. I'm going to try some more descriptions of my recent ideas soon

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