Every Sunday

Ill be honest I was not super exited about this project at first. Every project we have done speaks to me differently and as I tried to start on this one it just wasn’t speaking to me at all. I loved The TED talk we listed to about culture and at first I thought that is what I would be doing mine over. I just hate to do my projects on the same thing as the example art for the week. The same thing almost happened for medium specificity and I’m glad I came up with something new. So I spent a lot of time trying to think about what I could do that would speak to me enough so that this project could become meaningful to me. That’s why I liked depression quest so much. Not only did it speak to me it was clear it mattered to the person who created it. So I was trying co come up with something both topical and personal. Sunday morning I was listening to a podcast called Welcome to Nightvale. In the middle of each episode they play a not so well know song. Some times they are great sometimes not. This morning’s was so good it almost brought me to tears. The song is called “Jew for Jesus” and it is about, as far as I can tell, a man’s desire to be saved and then afterword’s the fact that he missed his old life. While I cant directly relate to this it spoke to me and gave me the idea of doing something about my religious experience and how difficult it has been since I have been at BYU. “Every Sunday” is about someone who struggles with anxiety about the culture change form the religion he knew growing up to what it looks like in Provo. He struggles with being forced to go even though he wants to go on his own. It is based on some feelings I have but more so its about feelings I have seen close friends around me experience. I wanted to show how easy it is to judge those in Provo by how well they live the culture and not by their testimony. In the end I made sure that no matter what you did you ended up in the same place. I wanted the person playing to feel as helpless as those who want to do what is right but have trouble taking the last step.