Origin Piece
My fully realized project has evolved quite a long way from my origin piece, which was a short fictional narrative I wrote in Fall semester of 2021. I wrote about a ceiling projector named Epson who was cursed to live a life stuck on the ceiling of the room he was installed in until he should someday die. Epson dreamed of what he was missing in the outside world, and wished he was able to go and explore it.
My Name Is Epson
I've been hanging up here for as long as I can remember. Born into this existence of being used, day in and day out by so many people, all here for their own agenda where I am the medium, the means to which they will get what they want. They always come, during the weekdays mainly, from morning until evening, turning me on, forcing me to run until I feel like I'll overheat and burning, and when they're done with me they leave, and I watch them rush out into the outside world that I've never seen past my cell windows, my confines to which I have been born, and where I shall stay until I die. They will use me up until I'm too old to take it anymore, too worn to do their bidding quickly enough to satisfy them, and then I don't know where they will bring my body, but I can assure you that I will be replaced, and the cycle will continue for as long as I can imagine into the future. What I would give for the freedom that they all possess, to leave this cell on the ceiling where I hang, my lights beeping and my plug always connected, never a real break from the living, from the use. My eye burns with heat from the time I spend projecting their ideas, their content, the things that they are all free to explore and create at any time they please, and I, always here, always functioning just for them, am the mode to which they do these things, and a second thought for me has never, and will never be granted. I work as quickly as I can manage; any pause or stalling always earns me a slap on my back, or sometimes they blow into my eye, into my holes to for me to wake up and work for them. Epson, is my name. For them, I am just an object, the tool to grant them their desires. Should I ever fail them, I know my fate will be a quick one, and an angry, lashing one from those that use me. At least when it's over, I will be taken from my cell, room 2306, and somehow, I imagine I will be in the outside world where they so often travel. I will be free, and I will never be used again. I wish I would be alive to see the day this happens, but I know that only in my death will I ever find the peace that I crave, and could never have. I am the projector in room 2306 on the second floor of Mason Hall. I have been here since the time I began remembering things, and I will stay here until after I stop remembering things forever. My name is Epson.
Other Projects
My first project from this semester was a song I wrote based on a poem I'd written previously about domestic violence and abusive relationships. I didn't finish the song completely, but it was the start of something that could be worked on, potentially a future project to return to.
Lyrics
A broken glass means so much more
Than what I'll bet you're expecting
You wipe the blood off of the floor
Hope he doesn't know it's missing
How can I get clean?
When the stain you see is me
He loves you because nobody else can
Broken bones but still not broken hearted
And you did know that if you ever ran
He'd wear his best suit, dearly departed
Please just leave, come stay with me
Your friends beg with you to listen
But after all, what's the need
He'd be so pissed if you went missin'
And his hand's on your throat again
Don't even fight, you know you can't win
He loves you because nobody else can
Broken bones but still not broken hearted
And you did know that if you ever ran
He'd wear his best suit, dearly departed
Oh baby listen to me
Leaving him sounds so scary
But please know you're not alone
You can still find your way home
And I don't want you to die
I think that now is the time
Project 2
My second project was a slideshow of photos I've taken paired with captions that I wrote for the feeling I generated from each one. The way I imagined this project was as if I was showing Epson, the character from my origin piece, the world that he longed to be able to see, and the beautiful parts that I thought he would have liked.