"I Really Need Help"
Dublin Core
Title
Subject
Description
This artifact is Alysia Boldin's notebook paper with a doodle on it.
The submitter provided the following about the artifact's origin: "I created this artifact while sitting in a study room where I was doing homework and studying. It felt as though I was in that room forever and I eventually became frustrated and tired, but I knew I had to complete my work. The way it looks is interesting to me because I did not know what I was doing. I just began drawing the wiggly shapes and then I added S.O.S. inside of them. Next, I felt like it was too plain so I drew lines to connect the wiggly shapes. I spelled out help me in between the spaces, then I wrote please down to the bottom because I did not have enough spaces to write between the lines. Lastly, I wrote the little message at the top of the paper. Of course I had to add some color to it by drawing zigzag lines over the letters."
The submitter provided the following about the artifact's origin: "I created this artifact while sitting in a study room where I was doing homework and studying. It felt as though I was in that room forever and I eventually became frustrated and tired, but I knew I had to complete my work. The way it looks is interesting to me because I did not know what I was doing. I just began drawing the wiggly shapes and then I added S.O.S. inside of them. Next, I felt like it was too plain so I drew lines to connect the wiggly shapes. I spelled out help me in between the spaces, then I wrote please down to the bottom because I did not have enough spaces to write between the lines. Lastly, I wrote the little message at the top of the paper. Of course I had to add some color to it by drawing zigzag lines over the letters."
Creator
Alysia Boldin
Source
Alysia Boldin
Publisher
Unpublished
Date
Rights
Alysia Boldin
Language
English
Identifier
Coverage
2000-2024
Notebook, Marginalia and Annotation Item Type Metadata
Genre
Doodle
Material
Lined paper, pen, pencil, highlighter
Circulation
None
Linguistic Text
"I Really Need Help"
"SOS" written in bubbles eight times in a linear fashion
"HELP" is written out, the letters spaced far apart and scribbled over in highlighter.
"Please" is written in a bubble in the bottom left corner
"SOS" written in bubbles eight times in a linear fashion
"HELP" is written out, the letters spaced far apart and scribbled over in highlighter.
"Please" is written in a bubble in the bottom left corner
Visual Text
The doodle is drawn out in such a way as to resemble some type of chemical compound structure. The individual words are written in bubbles, with lines connecting those bubbles. There are streaks of highlighter over four of the letters in the doodle.
Dimension
8.5" x 11"
Artifact Type
Drawing
Genres Included in the Artifact
Doodle, Coloring
Files
Citation
Alysia Boldin, “"I Really Need Help",” Museum of Everyday Writing, accessed April 25, 2024, https://museumofeverydaywriting.omeka.net/items/show/155.