Option #1 (Art/Ruins Interpretation):

Option #1 (Art/Ruins Interpretation):

In Time-Thought Exercise #3

one of the options was to ponder your reaction to an old building/a ruin you have seen. Choose an old building (or old/ancient city, etc.) that you have seen or visited. Use an appropriate mix of specifics and abstraction to convey the “time” resonance of such. Don’t go overboard in lush/impressionistic description! The purpose is to be analytical—to convey “points” about the site, not be a camera, as it were. Try to avoid “I saw… I thought” phrasing; no need to even say when you were at the site. There is latitude here to stretch the topic—a landscape, such as the “timeless” Nevada desert; an abandoned block of a city that has become the depository of garbage for a number of years; or, say, your grandparent’s attic that houses odds-and-ends of years past.