Analysis of the Mundane. Creative Writing. Arts Essay

Look around your house or apartment and pick two, very different looking objects to write about. Objects could include a refrigerator, utensils, piles of laundry, cat toys, newspapers, nail polish bottles, or whatever else you have laying around and find visually interesting. I recommend choosing one two-dimensional object and one three-dimensional object, however, the choice is yours. The only caveat is that neither of these objects can be considered art. In other words, you can choose to write about an informal snapshot, but not a professionally shot and presented photograph.



Take a minute or so to write down what you see. Think about the forms you see, the compositional arrangement of the parts, the material used, the technique used in creating the object, and so on. Then, write an approximately 200-word (or one paragraph) formal analysis of each object as if it were a work of art. The content should be as descriptive as possible and written with the assumption that your audience has never seen this object before.