Freedom Trio
The ask – inspired by stills taken from Christina Wu’s work, we were asked to describe how we would depict each of these concepts: “Freedom to Express, Freedom to Explore, and Freedom from Expectation.”
Let’s start with the second one, to already break away from the perhaps expected course of starting with the first option.
I would depict Freedom to Explore with a mini set of mold weaving in and around a skyscraper, breaking it apart on its journey to free itself of its concrete cage and also find the best way to sustain itself. This would commemorate an experiment in which mold, specifically slime mold, was used to find more efficient routes for train systems in Japan. According to what I grabbed off Google, “ Slime molds first “forage” broadly over an area, then refine their tubular network to optimize for transport of the nutrients. Now, researchers believe the slime mold’s efficient organic structure could provide a model for optimizing other networks—including those designed to move people and goods around a city”
I would depict Freedom to Express with a drawing of someone painting an abstract painting with the paint splattered with reckless abandon. I imagine them smiling with joy as we see the frozen, blurred motion of their arm as they throw the paint. Their clothes are also bright and colorful, showing their bravery to express themselves freely.
For Freedom of Expectation I wanted to write something that perhaps doesn’t count as a poem but I wanted to try something different for each one of the prompts.
Freedom from Expectation:
I am the exception of expectation.
I am the unexpected
This doesn’t even have to rhyme.
I am unpredictable in all ways
I am made of ever changing matter
I decide when to rhyme,
When to claim what is mine.
I decide that this is when I do something different.
I’ll tell a story through my words, not my camera.
I didn’t expect that.
(No gifs this time either. I didn’t expect that)