A Modest Introduction

Dear Reader,

In an attempt to prove that I am learning heaps at this university, I am dubbing these treasures Sparrows and Spuds. An odd title? Some are birds, the ideal, the poetic--and others potatoes, the less-than-ideal, the crass, the common? Not at all!

Potatoes are hefty, keep one well-fed (a diet of potatoes will keep you alive for three+ months), and are versatile within many forms. Entirely useful purposes.

Sparrows are beautiful, metaphorical, and work well within literature. But I wouldn't want to eat one. Just saying.

It is my opinion that a good piece of art maintains a balanced ratio of reality (accessible elements) and aesthetic forms (metaphors, symbolism, etc.)

The following posts are meant to review films, songs, plays, and books encountered at BYU. Such a blog will help me synthesize my thoughts such that others can understand reasons to appreciate (or otherwise) societal art products.

So, without further ado, enjoy, if you so choose, the lens of a college student who is trying to grasp patterns within art forms today and understand how we see the world today.

Yours respectfully,
Katie