- Choose a topic
- What question/problem did you choose?
- Difficulties/challenges/problems in fulfillment of love and personhood.
- Tell why you chose this topic and why it matters to you.
- I’ve spent a lot of time grappling with philosophy and how this connects to meaning and fulfillment in my own life. Challenging, yes, but fulfilling—much like a sort of hero’s journey. Specifically, love is a force that keeps coming up for me—not just romantic love, but love as a kind of striving, a reaching for something greater: connection, wholeness, understanding. Love as guiding principle, not just an emotion. I chose this topic because it feels like the core of so many philosophical questions I always return to (e.g. what does it mean to live well, how do we live meaningfully, etc.)
- Give some details on the problem/question—explain it in depth.
- The journey to self-fulfillment and self-knowing is a struggle. There’s this constant tension between who we are and who we’re becoming, between our ideals and our limitations. That’s why I’m pulling motif inspiration from Excalibur, the medieval, and Greek myth. These stories externalize internal conflicts—they use swords and monsters and quests to commentate on the same battles we fight within ourselves. The sword in the stone becomes a symbol of potential—something that only reveals itself when you’re ready, when you’ve become the kind of person who can wield it. I’ll include organs as motifs to provide an even larger sense of personal connection and grandeur.
- List out 10 tangible people/places/things that are associated with your question/problem.
- The heart
- Rock formations
- Boulders
- The eyes
- Swords
- Shields
- Excalibur
- Sun/sunlight
- The brain
- Blood
- Find and print an image for each of the 10 people/places/things that you listed above.
