{"id":367,"date":"2021-08-26T11:24:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T15:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/?p=367"},"modified":"2021-08-27T12:02:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T16:02:37","slug":"will-aaron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/waaaron\/will-aaron\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Aaron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hi there! I\u2019m Will and I\u2019m a senior physics and math major from Nashville, Tennessee. To me, art is a process of self-fulfillment allowing me to express myself beyond my work in mathematics and theoretical physics. Above all other creative pursuits, I\u2019m definitely a writer. I really enjoy writing fiction, prose, essays, and poetry, and I\u2019m inspired by great writers such as David Sedaris, Fariha Roisin, Walt Whitman, and Sylvia Plath. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More recently, I started to learn music theory and I\u2019ve been expanding my musical interests by learning piano. I don\u2019t have any experience really with making digital art aside from some Inkscape experience, however I\u2019ve always enjoyed crafts and sculpturing as a hobby. One of my goals in life is to apply my creative artistic side to my future work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for what that future work might be, I\u2019m hoping to integrate my coding skills and data analysis into something meaningful. I have programming experience in Python, R, Mathematica, and Matlab and I\u2019ve become pretty good at throwing numbers and equations around. Now I want to throw in colors, sounds, visualizers, and music into the mix to see what pops out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s some things I’ve made and some super short things I’ve written!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sixteen places where I sleep<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. On top of the front balcony roof. Herbal smells wafting from their smoke. A twenty foot drop to my left.<\/li>
  2. Among the crickets and spiders in the basement of my father\u2019s fourth house. The slate walls crumbled as I brush up against them, leaving rocks and dirt in my bed.<\/li>
  3. Underneath a black labrador on the couch in her family\u2019s tiny house in Rhode Island. The dog is easily forty pounds, despite being only a year old.<\/li>
  4. Inside and Outside a mason jar full of milk and honey. I drown in lipids.<\/li>
  5. A cinderblock room behind the door frame, far from the moonlight streaming inside the window. Although the smell of a dumpster also wafts in through the window, so pros and cons…<\/li>
  6. Sweltering inside a tiny third floor room on top a plastic mattress, slick with sweat and homesick tears.<\/li>
  7. Sideways with a backpack on and angled over a trashcan. The sickly alcoholic green vomit permanently stains the plastic.<\/li>
  8. Under the ocean of salt and sand, but above the lake of stars and rocks. The willow branch\u2019s path splits and twists. Intricate spread.<\/li>
  9. Draped in plastic trash bags under forest trees and above snails, worms, and sediment. The 3 am rain-water trickles around me in a shallow ditch. Please don\u2019t overflow…<\/li>
  10. A marriage mattress. Don\u2019t ask.<\/li>
  11. An air mattress. Do ask.<\/li>
  12. Beneath a study table, surrounded by equations, caffeine, and poor decisions.<\/li>
  13. A grassy drainage ditch. Don\u2019t worry, it was vaguely dry.<\/li>
  14. On a train, plane, and school bus window panes.<\/li>
  15. Splayed on top a parked car hood, grasping the front ornament.<\/li>
  16. Unease.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    Concrete Con-creek<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Cannibalization of the Calcified Cadavers of Nature’s Core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    These Creeps and their Capitalism, Controlling with Monolithic Constructions. Car Parking Lots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Of Course it\u2019s Callous. Yet to Conclude this Conundrum, what should be Changed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Nearly everyone proclaims, Nature Nature, Nature, Nature is Necessity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Never Notifying what Nature Necessitates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I Guess Grass? Giant Green Growths. Gaining Gadfly\u2019s.
    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Isn\u2019t it convenient that what we deem as nature is the same status symbols expressed by the elite for centuries and not native ecosystems and biodiversity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Hi there! I\u2019m Will and I\u2019m a senior physics and math major from Nashville, Tennessee. To me, art is a process of self-fulfillment allowing me to express myself beyond my work in mathematics and theoretical physics. Above all other creative pursuits, I\u2019m definitely a writer. I really enjoy writing fiction, prose, essays, and poetry, and… <\/p>\n

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