Writing Shapes

The Creative Writing Club members met today and, after a conversation about using Blogger to post our weekly responses, we got started.

We walked around the upper floor of the Learning Resource Center (LRC) and recorded different shapes that we observed. This is a found or conceptual writing technique that emphasizes a process through which imagery may be captured. It was an attempt to see the familiar from a different perspective.

The response pictured here shows Amera Jama's application of our writing activity.

a round wooden table

the reflection of the wooden table in the majlis window
a red circle around a door lock
concentric circles in grey and black on the floor
paper globes hanging by a string
a circular silver keyhole
the domed cylindrical trash can
a young man in a thobe turning half-circles back-and-forth in his chair
four people sitting around rectangular tables
the perfect circle of a black and white clock high on the wall
a cylindrical silver vacuum cleaner
the half moon wall of Lecture Hall C
a hole in the center
an aluminum dish
a marble oval coffee table
circular embroidery on a seat pillow
the letter 'O'
a ceiling lamp
the tiny holes of an intercom