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Reflect + Write

Themes/Groupings:

  • Love:
    • Gabrielle – 3 Dates and a Wedding (5/50)
    • Paige – Us (5/50)
    • John – You and Me (5/50)
    • Kimmy – A Kiss for the Heart to Grow (5/50)
    • Molly – The Origin of Love (5/50)
    • Maddie – Socks, and Ketchup, and a Golf Field (5/50)
    • John – Hotels Across the Country (Juxtapositions)
    • Molly – The End of the World (Juxtapositions)
    • Gabrielle – Love Is… (Juxtapositions)
    • Paige – Genesis of Love (Juxtapositions)
  • Personal Honesty
    • Paige – Obsessive Compulsive (5/50)
    • Molly – Realizing Tourettes (5/50)
    • Carina – Failure (5/50)
    • David – It Runs in the Family (5/50)
    • David – David’s Quarter-Life Crisis/Panic Attack (Juxtapositions)
  • Memory/Forgetting
    • John – Short-term Memory (5/50)
    • Sarah – Peter (5/50)
    • Gabrielle – Goodnight, Soldier (5/50)
    • Phoebe – ELI5 and Show, Don’t Tell
  • Origin/Childhood/The Beginning of Something
    • Gabrielle – Easter, 1996 (5/50)
    • Molly – The Origin of Love (5/50)
    • Molly – Adam and Eve (5/50)
    • Molly – Suspicious Grapes (5/50)
    • Sophia – Cosmogeny (5/50)
    • Bailey – Brothers (5/50)
    • Molly – Show, Don’t Tell
    • Paige – Genesis of Love (Juxtapositions)
  • Death/The End of Something
    • Sarah – Gram (5/50)
    • Molly – Cremation (5/50)
    • Phoebe – Tip Tap (5/50)
    • Maddie – 5 Senses

2-3 Things I Made:

  • 3 Dates and a Wedding (5/50)
  • Love Is… (Juxtapositions)
  • Albinism (Show, Don’t Tell)

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:

  • Sophia – Cosmogeny (5/50)
  • Paige – Genesis of Love (Juxtapositions)
  • Molly – The End of the World (Juxtapositions)
  • Jackson – Show, Don’t Tell
  • Bailey – Show, Don’t Tell

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.

Proposal Ideas

Emerging themes:

  • Many of our works involve audience participation and movement and contribution beyond standing up and singing along; things like Bailey’s bread box, following David around for Show Don’t Tell, arranging Gabrielle’s name, reading the Federalist papers; I think challenging the audience beyond an intellectual “here, watch this and think about it sense” and in more of physical, participation way could be interesting and challenging for us as the creators of the work. à would this become like a workshop?
  • Creations/ the beginning: Sophia’s black/white, Molly’s “The Origin of Love” and “Adam and Eve,” Paige’s “Genesis of Love”
  • Not being able to see (?): Bailey’s masks that were used by Carina as well, the fact that many people chose to have people close their eyes for the five senses project (even though it was unnecessary, Gabrielle’s albino mask, my tactile room, Gabrielle’s waiting room, Bailey’s “Blue” where his eyes are closed
  • Flushing things away: Titanic was flushed, the weird bottle story, bailey’s drinks going down the sink, I think Gram had things going down the sink as well, Glitter down the drain for Peter

Things I made:

  • Video of the sheet: I’m just stuck on this video and the sound of the sheet moving through space, not sure where it fits in to the larger scheme.
  • Tactile Room: Although I don’t think it was well executed, I really liked some aspects of how that turned out, like how it became a communal and fun discovery experience.

Things others made:

  • Kimmy’s Show Don’t Tell: The visual of Kimmy moving across the stage along with the dialogue was just so stunning and very layered.
  • Carina’s Show Don’t Tell: I think the effort she actually had to put in to make it all happen made it seem more visceral
  • Jackson’s Stories for the Five Senses (Recording of Reading the Murder Story): I think the impeccable timing and unexpectedness made this one
  • Paige’s Juxtapositions: Again, her Genesis of Love brought in the unexpected.

Reflect + Write!

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]

  • Gabrielle – Dirt as touch, sight, smell
  • Sophia – Branches for sight
  • Sophia – River objects 1-4
  • Sophia – Descent/Ascent objects 1-3
  • Sophia – Why are you crying? Object 6
  • Bailey – Wind movie
  • Sophia – Wind sound
  • Maddie – Taste: cacao powder and sea salt; “should taste like dirt, blood and tears”
  • John – a picture of the stars

[Mortality/Immortality]

  • Carina – Still Alive/Holy Shit image
  • Bailey – Live Forever objects
  • Phoebe – “And then one morning I woke up and felt alive.”
  • Molly – Cremation story
  • Sarah – Gram story

Things made by others that interest me:

  1. 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.

  2. Kimmy’s triptych — walking across the stage in slow motion.
  3. Bailey’s triptych in the box!

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:

  1. Genesis of Love video
  2. Feng Shui triptych

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!

Reflect & Write

Emerging Themes

  • Writing in obscure fashions.

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)

  • Creation Myths

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.

  • Music & Songs (perhaps too broad of a theme)

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)

  • Our Self-Image Changing from Child to Adult

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)

  • Self-Reflection/Self-Recognition (again, perhaps too broad)

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.)

Reflect + Write

Themes/Groupings

  • Traveling to unknown or faraway or new or mysterious places
    • Maps and cartography, ELI5 (Molly)
    • The Party Express, ticket & train whistle (Phoebe)
    • Gregor McGregor, ELI5 and performance (David)
    • Midnight NYC (John)
    • Highway to Hell (John)
    • Hotels Across the Country (John)
  • Power of remembrance
    • How memory works, ELI5 & performance (Phoebe)
    • Easter, 1996 (Gabrielle)
    • Goodnight, Soldier (Gabrielle)
    • Short-Term Memory (John)
    • Picture of the Stars, story and image (John)
    • Juxtapositions (Sarah)
  • Love in its many different incarnations like bad love, funny love, hurtful love, love that we will never forget, love that we wish we could get back
    • Hotels Across the Country (John) & the original drawing by Paige
    • Lolita (Paige)
    • 3 Dates & a Wedding, the whole story but also the arrangement of the cards on the board (Gabrielle)
    • The Origin of Love, Story #5 (Molly)
    • Adam and Eve (Molly)
    • You & Me (John)
    • “Love is…” Juxtapositions (Gabrielle)
    • Poem about mom in Story #3, The Land Before Time (Omar)
    • Live forever (Bailey)
    • Once in the Highlands, Story #4 (Kimmy)
    • Don’t Forget Your Mission, Story #3 (Kimmy)
    • A Kiss for the Heart to Grow, Story #1 (Kimmy)
    • Us, Story #4 (Paige)
    • Short-Term Memory (John)
  • Spirituality & Religion
    • Gnosticism (Sofia)
    • Syrian refugee crisis (Carina)
    • Feng shui, ELI5 & performance (Paige)
    • Cosmogeny (Sofia)
  • Historical figures, groups, events and its interaction with the present
    • Gregor McGregor (David)
    • Black Panther Party, ELI5 & performance (Kimmy)
    • Syrian refugee crisis, ELI5 & performance (Carina)
    • Maps and cartography, ELI5 (Molly)
    • The Federalist Papers, ELI5 & performance (Sarah)
    • The Baker, senses (Bailey)
  • We have a slight obsession with food, especially weird seemingly out-of-place food
    • Bailey’s homemade Roman-era bread (Bailey)
    • Brownies with Raisins (Phoebe)
    • Tea with nutmeg (Sofia)
    • Whipped cream with red pepper flakes (Carina)
    • Cocoa powder & salt (Maddie)
    • Story #1, Kraft (Omar)

Objects from My Own Work

  1. Story #4: Short-Term Memory, Object 4: Remember Me, Please
  2. Juxtapositions: Hotels Across the Country

— 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

  1. 3 Dates & a Wedding (Gabrielle)
  2. Show, Don’t Tell: How Memory Works (Phoebe)
  3. Show, Don’t Tell: Hiccups (Bailey)
  4. Juxtapositions: “Love is…” (Gabrielle)

— 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.