Q: What were one of your favorite shoes like? Describe how the shoe looked, how it felt to wear the shoes, and if you can remember, somewhere you went in the shoes.
Topichki (n.)- a colorful house slipper made of wool and felt. Ubiquitous throughout Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan…
Read John Berger’s : Ways of Seeing, and prepare a creative response
Pedantry, and verbosity aside, John Berger makes several interesting points, including the reciprocal nature of vision, and the transmittable meaning of painting.
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Read “The Art World Expands”, and write down one question and one observation you have.
Question:
“Simulacra and Simulation”… what does it mean, and how did French philosopher Jean Baudrillard describe the “Beaubourg Effect” as it reates to simulacra and simulation, and to postmodern art?
Q: What objects tell as story of your life? Describe why, and what they are. Draw a quick sketch of this object.
I cant think of just one object, or even a small selection of objects that can adequately tell the story of “my life”. I am too old, and have too many eclectic experiences and diverse periods of my life for such an undertaking. In fact…
Q: What is the most remarkable thing that you’ve gotten in the mail? Describe what it was and why. Draw as quick sketch of this object.
In terms of the most remarkable thing that I have recently received in the mail, that is easy, because it is rare that I receive anything at all ☹️.
I must have been a horrible father, because in nearly 3 years living behind steel doors, I have received two letters from my 17 year-old son, three letters from my 15 year-old daughter and zero…
Read “Blue of Distance” by Rebecca Solnit. Write down one question and one observation you have after reading “Blue of Distance.”
Question: If blue is a color of emotion and desire, is grey then the color of stagnation and hopelessness? If so can the a lack of blue serve as and excellent mans of torture?
Q: What rites of passages have you participated in? How old were you, what was it, why was this important to you?
Summer , 1970. I was 5 years old. For reasons not fully known to me , my mother and father conspired to send me to Taos, New Mexico for a summer with Grandma Petra.
Read “In Defense of Amateur” by Stan Brakage. Write down one question and one observation you have after reading “In Defense of Amateur”
Question: Why have I never seen, or even heard of a film by Stan Brakage?
Read “Art and Fear”. Write down one question and one observation you have after reading “Art and Fear”
Question: And what if one does not have talent?