Expressive Arts Carnival Activity No. 9
Welcome to Activity No. 9 of the Expressive Arts Carnival for the month of March 2011. Thank you to all who participate and a special welcome if you are new!
This month's theme:
This is something different and I admit it may be difficult for many. But let's give a try!
I first read about "6 word memoirs" in the article The Story of Your Life in Six Words at the blog World of Psychology. If you are going to participate, then you should definitely check it out, along with all the links there.
Please submit your work as an image. You can use any image editing program, as most all have text editing features. Try to stick only to words (please do not use any imagery). Of course, feel free to explore your creativity in terms of how you present the words, color, orientation, etc. If you need help, you can use the online word cloud generators we used in our first Carnival: Wordle or Tagul.
Entries are due by March 22, 2011.
You may also feel free to send me a link to a page hosted on your own site (or blog), if you have one. It is important to repeat that nobody is required to have a website in order to participate.
The Carnival will be published on the afternoon of March 24, 2011.
To submit an entry use this link to e-mail: paul@mindparts.org
Please use "EXPRESSIVE ARTS" in the subject heading to help me keep track of submissions. Every submission will receive an acknowledgement of receipt. If you do not receive one within a day or two, then please follow up with me.
If you have questions or need clarifications, direct them to me by e-mail or ask in the comments here.
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Hi Paul,
Just as a clarification, are you expecting a sentence or six descriptive words?
I've been trying this out over the last week or so, and it's a great way to keep track of how you're doing each day.
Take care,
CG
Hi CG. I wasn't clear on this. But I suppose that since the point is to put things into six words, that descriptive text would kind of be in opposition to that. So, I would say no.
Sorry, I swung and missed at my answer to your question, and I see on your blog now you thought I meant something that I didn't. I thought you were asking if submissions were to includes descriptive sentences (as is the norm) to go along with the art piece. And that answer was no, because the point is to put it all into six words. But I see I didn't read your question right (indicative of where I've been at lately). To answer your question: It can be anything you wish, 6 descriptive words or a sentence, either way. Sorry to have botched the question.
That's ok, I sort of ended up doing both and am glad I did it that way. I found that the word clouds fed into the construction of my sentence on a reflective level. So it worked for me. But I'm glad you caught the misunderstanding so that I didn't mislead others.