From the assignment requirements, I thought of my \u201cdaily rituals. While I don\u2019t have many, I do wake up and go to bed thinking of affirmations and words of gratitude, and I wanted to convey how my emotions swell and deflate, come and go. When thinking about the medium for my daily ritual I planned to depict, I knew I wanted a medium that would shift in some sort of way, even when it was a still image, and the chemical reaction between iodine and cornstarch popped into my head. My inspiration for the premise of this project came from a science experiment I performed during middle school. Originally, we used iodine and starchy water for a germ transmission activity, but I found the chemical reaction more fascinating than the activity itself. The premise of the project itself is experimental\u2014in the hands of chemistry, there\u2019s much spontaneity that could make or break the whole project. Using iodine and cornstarch to paint in general was a success in itself, but I hadn\u2019t realized how performative the work truly was until I\u2019d filmed it. Much of this project felt like I wasn\u2019t in control\u2014chemical reactions are fickle, especially when you don\u2019t know every facet of the reaction itself, or the used materials. Even still, this project taught me a lot more about control: even if there are parts of the project out of my hands, I can be creative with what I do have control over, just like how I have control over my emotions and how I apply them to the chaotic, spontaneous world around me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16839,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16841","student-work","type-student-work","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-time"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n