High School Portfolio-Jake Edwards 2011

Putting Myself Out There

Sylvan Lake Interim Trip

One of the most unique aspects of YMHS has to be the Week long trips that we do between quarters. One of my personal favorites would have to be the 2009-2010 Cabin trip to Sylvan lake in the hills behind Eagle, CO During the trip I had the opportunity to play ice hockey on the lake, go hiking, and  cross-country skied. This trip helped me coordinate a trip with pther students and my advisor, and experience a new place in Colorado. Enjoying my enviroment is by far one of my greatest passions and what better way to do it than to spend 2-3 days at an alpine lake enjoying activities such as Ice hockey, cross country skiing, winter hiking, etc. and having a nice warm cabin to go back and sleep in in the evening.


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                                      Sledding At Sylvan Lake
   

Grand Gulch Interim Trip

Senior Project
    The collaborative mural currently being painted by Cody Payne and myself with the assistance and supplies generously contributed by Gerry Micheal has probably been my longest going and favorite project thusfar. More of an improvisation than a planned painting, the mural represents to me a progression or rise in tiers of existence or conciousness. The painting begins on the left with exotic, but not impossible scenery, much like any common landscape painting. But as the eye travels right, the perception of reality becomes more and more thin and eventually crumbles away into a spiraling, balanced entity. Painting, and I suppose art in general, are percieved as a challenge by most. But im my personal opinion, anyone who has the serendipity to discover their soul's ability to control the body, rather than the mind can in time become a painter. The key to truly creating is to not think, to be locked in a state of meditation; not analyzing or trying to classify every movement, but not carelessly daydreaming either.

    The collaborative mural currently being painted by Cody Payne and myself with the assistance and supplies generously contributed by Gerry Micheal has probably been my longest going and favorite project thusfar. More of an improvisation than a planned painting, the mural represents to me a progression or rise in tiers of existence or conciousness. The painting begins on the left with exotic, but not impossible scenery, much like any common landscape painting. But as the eye travels right, the perception of reality becomes more and more thin and eventually crumbles away into a spiraling, balanced entity. Painting, and I suppose art in general, are percieved as a challenge by most. But im my personal opinion, anyone who has the serendipity to discover their soul's ability to control the body, rather than the mind can in time become a painter. The key to truly creating is to not think, to be locked in a state of meditation; not analyzing or trying to classify every movement, but not carelessly daydreaming either.