Fact: The artist Caravaggio was arrested 11 times in 5 years, at least once for drunk and disorderly conduct.
Sight:
Sound:
Smell/Taste: The smell and taste of old, sour wine
Touch:
The feeling of cheap beer, slightly sticky.
Combination: The taste and smell of cheap beer, while a “roaring fire” crackles in the background.
Themes/Groupings:
2-3 Things I Made:
These three objects of mine were most interesting to me because they progressed in order from most to least personal as I became interested in experimenting with truth and playing pretend.
3-5 Things Other People Made:
To me, these 5 objects all distorted beauty in some way. Sophia’s Cosmogeny was so visually perfect that it was disturbing. Paige’s Genesis of Love took the possibility of romance in the story of Adam and Eve and twinged it with ironic commentary. Molly’s The End of the World combined beauty and sadness. Jackson’s Show, Don’t Tell put us as audience in the strange position of voyeurs and equals in conversation; our vantage point was beautiful but our role was colloquial. Finally, Bailey’s Show, Don’t Tell was like Sophia’s Cosmogeny in that it was aesthetically beautiful to the point of being perverse.
Emerging themes:
Things I made:
Things others made:
Object 1: Mesh
Object 2: soundscape
Object 3: Performance w/ Madeline
Themes
[Love]
*John – Recipe for Love
*Paige – Genesis of Love
*Paige – Lolita
*Gabrielle – Love is
*Gabrielle – 3 Dates
*Kimmy – Love ring image
*Molly – the Origin of Love
*Gabrielle- Flirt video
*Gabrielle – Glovehands McGee
[Creation, or “Firsts”]
*Molly – The Origin of Love
*Paige – Genesis of Love
*Molly – History of Cartography
*Sophia – Cosmogeny objects 1-15
*Kimmy – Ripped from the Womb
[Dirt/Nature]
[Mortality/Immortality]
Things made by others that interest me:
Gabrielle’s “1-2% of 18th century people could read serious books” fact. We closed our eyes and when we opened them, all but one person’s hands were empty.
Response: All three pieces made me think about the concept of being alone TOGETHER or alone whilst in a group — each piece made me feel my own individuality even though I was surrounded by others.
Things made by me that interest me:
Response: My two most recent pieces interest me most because they make me think about individual voices telling parts of a story (Adam and Eve, fragments) or completing a list (numbers 1-15); they also make me think of encouraging the audience to participate through implicit rather than explicit methods!
For context to this post, check out my “Explain like I’m 5” post here.
My triptych had to keep my audience far away from my objects.
Objects:
“Journey of the Decade” Sign + Sign-up.
Sailing across the sea + subsequent funeral.
Coming back and warning the public about MacGregor.
Emerging Themes
John’s video “Remember Me, Please.” featuring the writing in reverse. (5/50 Assignment)
Sophia’s “Dismemberment” object (5/50, Cosmogeny story)
Sophia’s “Why Are You Crying” object (5/50, Why Are You Crying story)
Gabrielle’s objects 1-12 from “Easter, 1996” (the cut-out letters we rearranged together)
John’s “You & Me” story objects 1 (The World & Us) and 10 (Let Go)
Molly’s 5/50 Story #3 – Adam & Eve
Molly’s 5/50 Story – The Origin of Love
Multiple Objects from Sophia’s Cosmogeny Story (ex nihilo, in the beginning, etc.)
(Bit of a stretch here) Omar’s “The Land Before Time” story just based on the name alone.
Carina’s bad singing performance in “Failure” (5/50)
Maddie singing “Human Again” + Carina’s juxtaposition piece involving the masks, the music, etc.
Omar’s lecture + show-don’t-tell piece on music reading (ELI5 + Show-don’t-tell)
Maddie’s lecture on chords and jazz (ELI5)
The Titanic music from Carina’s story (5/50)
Kimmy’s Beyonce-related story (5/50)
Phoebe’s 4th Story: “Sing us a Song” (5/50)
Bailey’s spooky music/chanting (Five Senses)
Maddie’s Hunger Games Story (5/50)
My Job Application Video Pieces + Sophia’s juxtaposition (5/50, juxtaposition)
Carina’s decision to research the Syrian refugee crisis (ELI5, Show-don’t-tell)
Omar’s Adventures in the Osaka Red Light District (5/50)
Kimmy’s “Ripped from the Womb”, “A Summer of Sisterhood” stories (5/50)
Gabrielle’s “Easter, 1996” story (5/50)
My family’s history of alcoholism, my anxiety disorder (5/50)
Paige’s story about OCD (5/50)
Molly’s story “Realizing Tourettes” (5/50)
Carina’s story “Failure” (5/50)
Maddie’s story “Dead Squirrel” (aka “Hunger Games” again) (5/50)
Bailey, “Brothers” (5/50)
Omar, “What’s in a Name? Puns, probably.” (5/50)
Kimmy’s 5 Senses Piece and her Show-don’t-tell piece.
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2-3 things of mine which interest me:
My “Juxtaposition” performance piece, the letter from my dad (5/50), and my job application videos (5/50) interest me the most because they all explore what drives my anxiety and insecurity … and sharing that stuff with other people makes me feel significant.
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3-5 things of others which interest me:
Omar’s beat poetry “Juxtaposition” performance, Bailey’s “Show-don’t-tell” performance, Carina’s “Juxtaposition” piece, and Paige’s object in her “The Interestings” story entitled “Jules Jacobsen, looking back.” (5/50).
Why do these interest me? Omar’s writing and delivery are incredible and he deserves a TV show, Bailey’s placement of the audience as a vital part of his performance was really stunning, Carina’s experiential piece in the AMT blew me away, and Paige’s written piece struck a chord with me because I’ve been considering law school but I’m worried I’d become that man telling the story. (So, in short, I remember them the most vividly.)
Themes/Groupings
Objects from My Own Work
— There’s something really powerful about the way in which we remember the loves we’ve experienced—like the loves we never had, the loves that hurt us, the loves that made us happy, or sad, or cry and everything in between—no matter what we go through in life.
Objects from Other People’s Work
— I was very drawn to the way that a story changes and can be told depending on how you arrange objects, people, and your audience in space and in relation to one another.
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Object 2:
Object 3:
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