Thursday, January 21, 2010

AN EXERCISE IN LAYERING/BURYING/HIDING/REVEALING

1. think of an experience of significance to you.
2. create 3 symbols to represent that experience.
3. reproduce one symbol on a separate sheet of paper and "gift" it to the person next to you.
4. explain that one symbol with words on a separate sheet of paper and give that explanation the person sitting on the other side of you.
5. create a symbol for the words just given to you.
6. using lots of various materials, create a visual artwork using only the images/symbols in your possession. layers, erasures, burials, hidings, revelations emerge through repetition. imagine these symbols competing for attention. often switch use of materials every 15 seconds or so.


after jasper john's exhibit at the art institute --- exercise led by jorge lucero

stuck with me and i've wanted to try this again and again

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