{"id":623,"date":"2022-04-25T04:59:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T04:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-2\/?p=623"},"modified":"2022-04-29T17:43:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T17:43:44","slug":"editors-choice-for-arts-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/2022\/04\/25\/editors-choice-for-arts-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s Choice for Arts &#038; Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"\/17-2\/arts-and-media\/handful-of-earth\/\">handful of earth<\/a><\/h4>\n<h3>Jarrod Sage<\/h3>\n<div id=\"post-link-623\" class=\"sh-link post-link sh-hide\"><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide_toggle('post', 623, 'Show more...', 'Show less'); return false;\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span id=\"post-toggle-623\">Show more...<\/span><\/a><\/div><div id=\"post-content-623\" class=\"sh-content post-content sh-hide\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About The Piece: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a piece that I collaged to the front of an old personal journal before its pages were completely filled. My journal is a space where I feel free to map the jumbled architecture of my mind, yet somehow it resists the incoherence that can be found in my Notes app or book marginalia. I&#8217;ve lived my whole life with ADHD\u2014although only diagnosed relatively recently\u2014and thus I grew up told from all angles that my attention was oriented toward incorrect directions. I wanted this piece to capture the liberation and necessity of having a place to be me, a place where I am allowed to meander and follow my pen\u2014my attention\u2014wherever it leads. Like so much of my art, it was never intended to be a piece I was proud enough to share; I was simply sifting through magazines, letting myself clip where my hand was drawn toward. I clipped from a dusty old book of poetry a stanza from Walt Whitman&#8217;s &#8220;Song of Myself&#8221; because it was one of the first poems to convince me that poetry held something invaluable, something inaccessible by other means. I chose that stanza because it spoke to what reading and writing means to me: a vector to share myself with the world and to share the world with me, a way of effectively communicating, a chance at trying to make meaning. I am very excited to hear what other people read when they see this piece; I like being understood through my art, but to some extent I even more like seeing how people interface with my work, seeing their interpretations and how they interact with it. I&#8217;m a chemist and I&#8217;m a collage artist; to me, both chemistry as a discipline and collage as an art form deal very intimately with the interactions between things\u2014that&#8217;s where the interesting stuff lives. People often get nervous when they share what they see in my work as if they are afraid of being &#8220;wrong,&#8221; but I myself find new interpretations of my own work all the time; when I made this, I was having trouble understanding exactly how comfortable (or uncomfortable) I was with my assigned gender. Looking now, I see little hints and bursts of that tension sewn throughout the collage, a tension I never meant to manifest there. I&#8217;m equally captivated by my own interpretations as I am with the interpretations of others, and I hope I share this enthusiasm with the viewer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About The Author: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m a Pacific Northwest transplant who grew up just outside Seattle before moving north to a coastal college town on the land of the Coast Salish people called Bellingham, WA to earn my Bachelor&#8217;s of Science in Chemistry at Western Washington University. This August, I moved to Bloomington-Normal where I&#8217;m currently pursuing my Master&#8217;s in Chemistry with Illinois State researching the nature of di-halogen intermolecular interactions with Dr. Bhaskar Chilukuri. People are often surprised when they learn I&#8217;m a scientist after seeing my art\/writing or when they see my art\/writing after meeting me as a scientist. I never really understood why. In my eyes, there is no substantial difference between the practices\u2014I see them mostly as two different ways of seeing the same thing. I make art and write for the same reasons I do scientific research and sit through chemistry lectures: I want to understand the world, I want to share my ideas with people, and I want people to share their ideas with me. Both vantages are equally important, in my opinion, and my dedication to<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>handful of earth Jarrod Sage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}