I have one class that remains a mystery to me. My Hybrid and narrative class focuses on the method of telling stories and seeks to understand the nature of narrative in the 21st century. The idea behind hybridity is trying to discover the essence of voice and how it differs from other voices. After you find your voices, you find a way to blend them into a new idea, a new essence. It isn’t as simple as all that, but I suppose that’s a decent explanation.
I’ve had a hard time trying to interpret this idea through my own understanding, how do you write from two different voices? My professor stressed blending the projects of form, poetry and prose for example. What’s the purpose of poetry? What’s the purpose of prose? What new purpose can be gained from blending them together? After some thought I realized that the art that I enjoy the most always comes from a place of hybridity–music mixed with film, dance mixed with poetry, even the paintings I like to make go so much further beyond acrylic on canvas. But how does this translate when you’re only using one tool of expression?
