Ashureena’s Entry 3 Blog Post: https://ashureenadankha.wordpress.com/2019/08/27/blog-3-the-relationship-between-art-and-literature/
My first thought: what an unusual way to begin a critical piece…
Though this is a critical, I really appreciated the fusion of creative and critical you embedded at the beginning of your blog: “I am standing on a footbridge made of timber, a boardwalk if you may…beyond that surface, are the ocean’s gentle waves, conversing with the wind.” That excerpt displays beautiful auditory imagery and it is wonderful way to set the scene for your reader: to exemplify the “correlation between literature and art” with your own words.
This imaginative paragraph proves the very point you make in the rest of your blog. Like literature and art, creativity and criticism are often the same thing and must be used interchangeably to evoke an agenda or reveal a perspective to audiences. I very much agree that art facilitates self-actualisation and referencing Miles Franklin and Banksy as authoress and artist both creating pieces in opposition of the status quo was a clever way of evidencing creatives from classical and contemporary Australian periods.
My last thought: what a brilliant way to illustrate the connection between literature and art!
Mariama E. Biro Saibou 