Medium Specificity - MONOPARABLIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Mother

Father

Brother

Military

Stationed

Germany

Pregnancy

Contraction

Aunt

Water

Blood

Bathroom

Birth

Baby

Name

Brother

Flight

America

California

Grandparents

Departure

Arrival

Utah

Home

Growth
Brothers
Family

Art

Preschool

Elementary

Junior

High

School

Writing

Work

Dating

Girls

Crushes

Crushed

Missionary

Vancouver

Canada

Spanish

English

Multicultural

Return

Factory

University

Cubicle

Art

Film

Apartment

Dating

Breaking

Sleepless

Blessed

Learning

Grateful

Prayerful

Here

Now.

Artist Statement: The word Monoprablic is, admittedly, a made up word.  I speak Spanish, which is a Latin-based language, and in Spanish the word for word is palabra.  I did some searching and found out that the Latin root was parabola, and in English, the word that best resembles this Latin parent is the word parable.  So, I thought, if monosyllabic means "consisting one syllable", then monoprablic should mean "to consist of a single word."

The medium I decided to investigate was literature.  My love of art, specifically drawing, drew me to literature as I desired to have stories told of the new worlds my pencil's led formed.  My brother influenced me in that way because he would often make up stories himself based on my artwork.  I even wrote the first draft to a novel and have written roughly 175 pages to another novel in the saga.  My love of writing eventually brought me to film, which I realized recently is a combination of visual art and literature.  Writing, I'm certain, will forever be a major part of my life.

As was mentioned in the reading, Show and Tell, words have an insuperable connection to imagery.  We often try to separate the two, but the truth of the matter is that they have the same root, and as I mentioned above, one often leads to another.  Just as a masterpiece painting is made up a several, probably thousands of different brushstrokes, so is literature made up of words.  A word by itself is often disreguarded, or it may seem out of place because it lacks context.  What I've done here is break down my life into a constant stream of single words that have minimal context but still come across in a cohesive and coherent manner.

Another source that looks at words and their importance and power on individual level is episode 2 of the youtube video miniseries Hope Is Emo.  She focuses on both the written word and the spoken word.  To me, there can come a great distinction between how a word is interpreted, whether it is read or heard.

There really is no equivalent substitute to the imagery, impressions and emotions expressed and experienced when written.