My last post for my personal aesthetic practice “Childhood Wonder”. One of my favourite things to do is look at art. Ever since I was little I loved to leaf through books that had images. One of the genres, or subjects, I enjoyed most as a child was dragons and monsters. Seems a little cliche …
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Th Wonderful Implications of Reading and Writing Language
This is another post for my personal aesthetic practice. When I was very young, I used to love when my mom would read stories to me and my siblings. Sitting on the couch and hearing these beautiful and complex worlds pour from the pages and through my moms voice, to my ears and into my …
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I Wish I Could Fly
This is another post for my Personal Aesthetic Practice “Childhood Wonder.” Haven’t we all dreamed of flying at some point or another? I know I have, and I do almost on a daily basis. Unfortunately I was blessed with opposable thumbs and a very large cerebral cortex instead of wings to fly (just kidding, I’m …
How Does This Happen, How Far Does The Aesthetic Experience Go, Where Do We Draw The Line?
This is another post for my personal aesthetic practice. Here are two pictures of houses in Regina. The first is an image of a house I lived in for a couple months with some roommates in downtown Regina right beside Scott Collegiate on Athol Street. The next is an image of a house in …
I Wonder Where We’re Going…
This is yet another post for my Personal Aesthetic Practice. From the time I was a born to when I was four years old, I used to live on an acreage. After that, until I was twelve, I lived in a small town in Alberta before moving to the city of Regina. I was always …
The Wonders of Life
This week for my personal aesthetic practice Childhood Wonder I am blogging about babies and the wonders of life. This is my cousin Kevin’s baby boy Linken, he is just over four months old and I just love this little guy so much. They came over for a visit and I got …
The Wonder Of Trees
This is another post for my personal aesthetic practice in my aesthetic education class. I remember when I was very young and watched the Bugs Life for the first time and believed trees grew from rocks. I can specifically remember when I was very young living at my first home. I lived on an acreage …
What a Great and Big World We Live In
Last Saturday, on the 22nd, I went out ice-fishing with my family. It was me, my dad, my brother in-law and my little brother. We went to Echo lake right by the Qu’appelle Valley and the view was absolutely amazing. This is a post for my personal aesthetic practice Childhood Wonder. I have been exploring and …
Looking Up in Awe
In my Aesthetic Education class one of our assignments is called “Personal Aesthetic Practice.” In this assignment we are supposed to engage in a weekly practice of noticing something that relates to a concept that we select and documenting the image in some way with a photograph or two. The topic I chose was “Childhood Wonder.” …
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