[Cailin]

Yes, all the time – but regarding intentionality you’d probably be most interested in my art exam I did in high school. In US schools there are “honors” versions of classes on certain subjects and then you take an exam at the end of the class – and if you pass, you get college credit in that subject. I took a few classes, English, Chemistry and Art but only passed the exam in my honors art class. For Art there wasn’t an actual test, the exam was a portfolio of pieces with a theme or something you wanted to say through art, and short essays on the reason or vision behind what you made – like an art exhibition might have. I used film music as my muse and did my whole art series for my portfolio on reflecting film music in art – I did some abstract, some realism, different styles and techniques. I painted what I thought the music looked like on its own (apart from any film influences), like mood, color, etc. or what I envisioned in nature when hearing an instrument play (like a shaded forest, an ocean wave). That massive project made me really delve deeper into the music emotionally and visually. I don’t remember all the scores that I used as reference (I’m pretty sure they were all ones I hadn’t seen the movie for, so I wouldn’t be influenced) but The Shawshank Redemption is one of my favorite scores to this day because of that project. The track So Was Red I know really brought to life one of the paintings.