On My Own Time (OMOT) Employee Art Show
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Item 12:15(2022-08) Shivvers, StephanTrying to go back and make sense of things after a relationship has endedItem 43: Ode to the Original Hoonigan(2023-08) Wang, JenniferAs a long-time action sports fan, I was deeply saddened by the death of Ken Block earlier this year. His influence transcended snowboarding and rally car racing, and I wanted to pay homage to him. This was published in The New Verse NewsItem Blue(2020-08) Wang, JenniferPLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: This poem originated as fanfiction about the anime Free! The main character is an introverted blue-eyed boy who only feels like himself when he's swimming. He made me think about how you can love something as much as person, and I combined his perspective with my own fascination with the ocean.Item A Boy Who Lived Down the Street(2023-08) Popokh, BenjaminReading about incidents of police brutality against young Black men, I began to remember a childhood neighbor, the son of Nigerian immigrants next door. We played in our backyards every day one year, then his family moved away. I've since forgotten his name, and it dawned on me that every time I see a news item about a young Black man being hurt - it could be that boy I once played with.Item Breakfast in Bed with Cat(2022-08) Mapes, KellyI like being whimsical and having fun with words.. especially when it comes to one of my favorite subjects- cats. I hope it brings a smile to your face as you read it (even if you don't have a cat).Item Childhood Wonder(2022-08) Kriegel, JenThis poem examines a childhood memory, using the wonder and compassion of the eyes of the child tainted with adulthood.Item Comparing Ordinary(2022-08) Kriegel, JenThis poem juxtaposes human emotion with the remarkable, simultaneously marking it in a category of humility as well as the extraordinary experience it provides.Item Creation of a Path(2023-08) Popokh, BenjaminThe sidewalks are sporadic, unkempt, and inconsistent where I live. Yet in the grass between the missing concrete, I often notice a path made by years of collaborative footsteps. The idea of creating one's own physical or mental path, with the help of the community, led me to this poem.Item Crushing Summer(2018) Boykin, RandallPLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: I had a dream about one Summer in San Angelo during college.Item Don't Look at Me(2023-08) Doig, DavidSeeing into the mind of an Alzheimer's patient and wondering what those eyes have seen over the years and not having the ability to talk about their lives.Item Dreamscape(2022-08) Mapes, KellyThis could be about choosing whether to save one's self.. This is based upon an actual dream that I had.Item The Duck Farmer(2018) Patel, ReinaPLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: While traveling on a houseboat with my family in South India, I woke up one morning to an intriguing scene in the waters around me. I could not let the inspiration pass without documenting it in some form; hence this poem was born.Item Ecdysis(2018) Wang, JenniferPLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: I love burlesque, and I found H.L. Menken's word for a dancer, "ecdysiast", particularly curious, as in science, it describes the process of a snake shedding the skin. I thought I would marry the art of burlesque with scientific observation in this poem.Item Ecdysis, revisited(2018) Wang, JenniferPLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: This is a companion piece to my poem, "Ecdysis", which views a burlesque dancer from a scientific lens. This time I flip the script and view the biological act of ecdysis (the shedding of skin... in this case by a snake) as a performance.Item Epidemic(2020-08) Wang, JenniferPLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: I actually wrote this when we had the case of Ebola here in Dallas. I listened to an NPR piece about the stigma that Thomas Eric Duncan's neighborhood was facing, and it made me think about how racism was fueling the hysteria and how that's a bigger epidemic. I hate that almost everything in this poem is still relevant and there was very little I had to edit.Item Forbidden Fruit(2019) Mukherjee-Roy, NeijePLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: The literal story about picking a peach stems from a recent event when I slipped while climbing a peach tree to pick a particularly ripe peach I wanted. I came off the tree to tend to my bleeding leg and continued through the orchard, it was only when I got home that I realized I never went back to actually pick that peach because I got side tracked from the injury. The sinking feeling of wasted effort reminded me of the dissatisfaction that came with courting someone only to be rejected and reprimanded severely. Didn't matter how much effort you put into it, you're the one who ends up hurt. So I personified the whole poem to reflect this failed courting sentiment.Item Four-Letter Words(2019) Wang, JenniferPLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: Before #MeToo , there was a debate about whether comics have the right to tell rape jokes. Around the same time, I was becoming a more vocal feminist, standing up for my friends who were a survivor and talking about my own experiences with crossed boundaries that left a bit of trauma. At some point, I felt my voice was being drowned out in the censorship debate so I wrote this poem to make my thoughts heard.Item The Gardener(2019) Holland, AdrianaPLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: My grandfather passed away a few years back and this is my memorial to honor him. He was a man of few words, but I learned a lot from the little.Item god might have sensorineural hearing loss(2019) Pendry, RobertItem going(2018) Cao, JaniePLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: This poem was inspired by a patient I saw on the neurology stroke service when I was a third-year medical student. Her clinical course made me think about death as a process rather than a state of being. The "dot" symbolizes both the lesion in her brain that grew over time and a state of seeming finality.