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Arnold, Craig. "Very Large Moth." Poetry out Loud, Poetry Foundation and The
National Endowment for the Arts, www.poetryoutloud.org/
poems-and-performance/poems/detail/56460. Accessed 26 Apr. 2019.

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"Very Large Moth" by Craig Arnold is an imagistic poem depicting a large moth trapped in one's home. I chose this as the final piece of the portfolio because I have always found moths slightly alarming. Big moths, especially. This poem isn't overtly troubling on its own, but when put with the rest of the pieces in the portfolio, I believe it has quite unpleasant undertones. The end of the poem speaks of the moth's release back into the night. It acts as an atonement to this portfolio, where one can let go of the disturbed feelings of peace that were experienced prior.

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This imagistic poem was created as a finale to my three pieces. This one is the most horrifying and anxiety inducing of them all. I wanted to create a poem that left a lot up to the audience's imagination, so this poem did exactly that. Instead of calling the fingernail character something specific, I simply referred to it as "it." This allows for one's own interpretation of the creature, but it also keeps the poem very disturbing. I think that dark tunnels are the most sketchy place to be- no question- so I decided to have this poem set in a tunnel. I wanted the reader to smell the dankness, to feel the cool, damp air, and to hear the continuous echoes of "its" fingernails, scuttling across the concrete.

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This watercolor painting was created in hopes of the viewer hearing the sounds of tearing paper, and feeling anxious about the asymmetry of the piece. The tearing paper was actually an accident when taking off the masking tape, but it definitely adds another element of disturbed peace to the painting. I chose in this piece to create a monotonous color scheme, to go along with the spookiness of Perish (Ft. Horse). This adds to the gloomy and fearful connotations hiding in the painting. The trees were drawn to look as dead as possible, with the thought in mind that the viewer would hear the wind making the dry branches rustle and creak... which is a slightly disturbing sound.

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This portfolio includes pieces of imagism that I have created over the past week. The goal of imagism is for the viewer to feel as though they are experiencing the pieces firsthand (feeling, smelling, seeing, etc.). In imagism, clarity is very important. The clearer and more descriptive/obvious the piece is, the more likely it is that the viewer can feel as though they are experiencing it.
The pieces that I've put together are a short film: Perish (Ft. Horse), a painting: Barren Dusk, and a poem: Blood Stained Lamp. I also have a poem by Craig Arnold: Very Large Moth. The theme of these pieces is to convey feelings of uneasiness, muffled concern and confusion.

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This short film is designed to make one feel uneasy and confused. To create this vibe, I deleted the original audio of the video, and replaced it with some unnervingly edited sound effects that I created at home. This creates a very empty and hollow feeling to the video, which is exactly what I was going for. I made sure the sound effects were slightly off alignment, to ensure even larger amounts of anxiety are produced. I also edited the colors of the film to make it more unpleasant. The muddled greenish grey makes the scene seem a bit more haunting. As for the horse mask, that is used to add to the confusion, and for a bit of comedic relief.