Joel Simone

Today I turned in my Humanities 10 final essay, and this included doing a short wrap up presentation for the class. The final assignment was to complete an interdisciplinary project analyzing and associating three pieces of art, i.e., a musical piece, a painting, and a poem. I chose to base my project on Automat, by Edward Hopper.

I worked the analysis and association of Automat to Mythical, a song I wrote in 2003. I uploaded the song to download.com at some point in 2004, and you can listen to the recording here, listen to Mythical. (I found an interesting typo at download.com, i.e., “to” instead of “too” in the bio; my new education is really working.)

I then associated the song and painting to “The One Thing,” a poem by Rob Nilsson from his published book of poetry, From a Refugee of Tristan Da Cunha.

I did a short informal presentation to the class of the concept behind my final essay. I also shared analysis on the painting, performed the song, and read the poem. I made sure to give a disclaimer on the performance and song; I don’t consider myself a performer or musician; if I were to do it again, I would likely play a recording of the song instead. Reading Rob’s poem was my favorite part of the presentation, for I really felt some of the lines when reading.

This concludes Humanities 10. I may return to make additional notes on the course, but for now I will focus on the presentation that really matters, The Doorway.