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Swordfish
Starring John Travolta,
Halle Barry and
Hugh J acknian
Director Dominic Sena
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lew look. He is ready to take
in the world.
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Stanley, played by Aussie
lewcomer Jackman, is
dragged into the plot by the
Scantily-clad Berry, who sets
up a meeting between
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incent van Gogh never farmed
an acre and Bill Shakespeare
could not have engineered his
way out of a cardboard box, so
what do two of history’s most
noted artists have in common
with students at Texas A&M? In
our midst wmlk die next genera
tion of those masters of self-ex
pression. Our own painters and
poets color the world as they see
it in styles all their own.
“I paint because it is a time of
peace for me. I tend not to wor
ry about anything,” said Kevin
Will, a senior recreation, parks,
and tourism sciences major. “It
is a way for me to escape from
life’s frustrations and stresses.”
As a tool for relieving pres
sures, the benefits of painting
can be two-fold: personal thera
py and communication.
“In a way it can be self-ex
pressive,” Will said. “I can draw
or paint something that may
have had a negative impact on
me, but nobody would know un
less they could understand the
artwork.
“Not all of my works are
based on personal feelings or
moods, but rather on combining
different aspects of other’s
works.”
Will’s paintings draw from
several different styles like ab
stract art, in which an artist
combines different forms and
colors into unconventional im
ages, and impressionism, in
which an artist gives his inter-,
pretation of something seen in
reality.
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“The type of art I find most
interesting is abstract work, like
Pablo Picasso’s,” Will said. “But
I have done a few still life draw
ings with pencil, ink or char
coal.”
Regardless of the material or
techniques used, the essence of
Will’s creative outputs lives
within the moment.
“Sometimes I just pick up a
brush and paint whatever comes
to mind. A lot of times, I find
myself staring at the canvas be
cause I cannot seem to get the
image I want on paper.”
The power of the written
word still serves some students.
“I love writing poetry,” said
Calissa Kneip, a senior commu
nity health major. “Once I start
ed doing it, they just started
coming; my mind just works
like that.”
In the cultivation of her free
verse, Kneip said she will focus
on her goal or her purpose in
writing, always maintaining a
steady course.
“Some 6f them, after I write
them, I might change some
words, but usually they’re pret
ty close to what I’d wi'itten,”
Kneip said. “I usually know ex-
acdy what I want to get out.”
Kneip made the point that
whether one is writing or paint
ing, the process should be com
fortable and unrestrained.
“It took me a while, but once
it started, it was real natural.”
As for subject matter, Kneip
writes mostly about personal,
emotional experiences.
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“Some of them are real de
scriptive. Whenever peo
ple read them, they’re
like, ‘It just made me feel so
much.’ The rest are from
things that happen to me or
things that happen inside.”
Some of her poems come out
of difficult times in her life, but
that does not keep her from
finding the positive influences
writing can have.
“One night I
had a bad
night, and 1
just sat down
and wrote this
thing,” Kneip
said. “When it
was done I
gave it to my
mom to read.
She said it was
sad, but it was
so beautiful.”
Julie Gele, a
sophomore
computer sci
ence major began
her efforts as an artist at
an early age when she
wrote short
stories, read
them to her
friends and
spent time as
a reporter
for her high
school’s student newspaper.
“I write about nearly any
thing and everything,” Gele
said. “The first story I wrote was
in fourth grade, but after that,
most of the stories I write are
about dreams, and I’ll just take it
from there.”
Gele said she will spend
about an hour a day writing,
developing her collection of
almost 60 stories.
“I don’t even really think
about it,” Gele said. “It’s basical-
See Artists on Page 6.
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Embracing the Pasty Exploring the Future.
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