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Introduction<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The Reflections unit is tactfully placed at the beginning of senior year, just as most of us are going through the process of college essays and applications that ask us to dig down to the core of ourselves and explain why that person is a good fit for their school. But this unit, just as is true with all of Freestyle, goes beyond college. It asked us, when school is over and you’re pursuing your dreams in the real world, what will set you apart? There are thousands, millions of people who want to become filmmakers, animators, writers, and the hundreds of other occupations that fall under “artist.” This unit forced us to ask ourselves, why would I<\/em> succeed? In English we wrote personal essays to unearth our core values, in Film me made video essays that explained who we really were, and in Digital Media we created art that reflected – no pun intended – our own selves. Art really is just a reflection of the soul. Look back at what you’ve created and it’ll reveal who you are as a person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mandala<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The Mandala project was perhaps one of my favorites from Digital Media. Through Adobe Illustrator, you could draw a line on a single section of a circle and have it reflected over to fill the shape. This allows the artist to slip into an almost meditative state of creation. The lines reflected across the canvas are almost reminiscent of ink flowing across a page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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