During the reading we talked about how process can be as important as the finishing piece of art.
We sat and discussed the reading, the reading was about an artist that came in everyday to her studio and produced a repetitive notion that she continued for a period of time. This notion was using tape and wrapping it on itself until the roll was out, then she would buy another roll and continue. This piece of sculpture grew very big, to the scale of where she could not lift it without assistance.
This was really interesting because Micheal wanted to look at the situations where we have hit a brick wall and unable to think about where we can take our work next. Therefore he presented us with the idea of thinking of something that relates to our works, but something that we can do repetitively every time we come into the studios. This could be something as simple as coming in an d drawing a line on a piece of paper and then doing the same the next day until you feel like the notion does not need to be continued.
During the second half of the reading, he set us a task to go back to our studio spaces and pick a piece of artwork and describe it to the best of our abilities, but not like the way we would describe it to our friends but in depth down to where we brought the pencil we drew the picture from. I picked a piece of art I was playing around with at the beginning of this semester, it was a painting of a face using the left over resources from last year. I found it pretty difficult to start off with because I didnt know how to reflect this way but as I got into it this became easier and something that I will continue with!
Also alongside this Micheal asked us what 2 things we are going to do repetitively that we can continue with for a small amount of time. My two ideas were:
- Collect receipts
- Take pictures of an area in town once a day then merge the photo
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