I read an excerpt from an art history textbook about how to formally analyze artwork. It had been broken up into sections of how to analyze particular works of art, including paintings, sculptures, ceramics, architecture, installation, digital, and performance arts. I focused on the main pieces that I usually study and create which are paintings …
Tea in Japan (based on a key idea from free write)
According to the text from Rikyu, I have thought of tea in Japan to be more of a journey than about the end product. It is not about the materials that you have, as long as your heart is in it. In fact we are all capable of using makeshift tools for any part of …
Tea Tasting Review!
Last Thursday the class tasted several different teas. After trying almost all of them, I decided that the sweet, floral, and light Jasmine tea was my favorite. I ended up drinking too cups of the Jasmine tea. I loved how light it was, and although I drank my cups with honey, I tried each tea …
The Book of Tea: Free write analysis
Okakura Kakuzo’s Book of Tea: chapter “The Cup of Humanity” “The long isolation of Japan from the rest of the world, so conducive to introspection, has been highly favourable to the development of Teaism. Our home and habits, costume and cuisine, porcelain, lacquer , painting -our very literature- all have been subject to its influence.” The …
Free write on “paraphrase x3”
Using paraphrase times three allows me to further analyze sentences or concepts. When reading a complicated sentence or idea, it can be easier to just graze through it in a larger text, neglecting its true purpose. When paraphrasing a complicated sentence, I have realized that I tredge deeper into my interpretation, making sense of what …
“Paraphrase X 3” for Okakura Kakuzo’s Book of Tea: chapter “The Cup of Humanity”
The Cup of Humanity “The long isolation of Japan from the rest of the world, so conducive to introspection, has been highly favourable to the development of Teaism. Our home and habits, costume and cuisine, porcelain, lacquer , painting -our very literature- all have been subject to its influence.” The entirety of Japanese culture has …
Poem Analysis
When reading the poems about tea in class, I came across one common theme, the glorification of tea through nature. Two poems that I feel have expressed this link particularly well are Lu Tong’s “Written in haste to thank Imperial Censor Meng for his gift of freshly pricked tea” and Jiaoran’s “Making fun of the …
Class in the Garden
In our last class meeting, we visited the community garden. We spent most of our time with the plants that have some sort of use to humans, such as medicinal, herbal, or culinary. I explored and analyzed the sage plant. Its leaves grow opposite one another, perfectly balanced. The strong stem was about 24 inches …
