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| step 5. |
okay so making art with young people rules?
1/30/13
1/27/13
1/25/13
1/22/13
1/15/13
1/14/13
1/13/13
1/12/13
saturday.
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| near north ave. and sheffield. |
you walked in with your homemade portfolio. nervous. honest. it was an honor to meet you. your energy filled me with excitement for what's to come for both of us.
1/11/13
1/10/13
1/8/13
tuesday.
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| shapes. |
i wake up and work out. i spend the day researching. i go back and forth between feeling confident and in the dark. i'm excited and full of fear.
1/7/13
monday.
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| moving. |
a journey implies a destination, so many miles to be consumed, while a walk is its own measure, complete at every point along the way.
-francis alÿs
1/6/13
12/22/12
12/20/12
12/19/12
12/18/12
12/17/12
12/16/12
sunday.
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| sponge jenga. |
making connections between life inside & outside of school, questioning myself constantly & students, investigating together, research, reflection, sustaining curiosity, work spilling out of our room into hallways & the neighborhood, engaging with people outside of school through community based projects proposed by students, what do they care about in their neighborhoods? what do they want to know more about? open to experimentation & risk taking but explicit in my instructions & expectations of my students, authentic projects instead of isolated tasks, i want my students to be self-sufficient, self-directed & resourceful, valuing works in progress, idea generation, who am i in my community? fluid space, mentorships between younger & older students, contemporary artists in our classroom-visiting artists, continue to be a maker of art outside of school, field-trips, walks, movement, physical awareness of bodies in space, process as important as product, documentation, meta-cognition, self-reflective researchers, inviting personal stories into planning projects, walking maps, drawing maps, talking maps. sometimes I know. sometimes I don't, crawling around inside, noticing noticing. curveball, fastball, change-up. a trombone in the street, this way & that. what do you love? what do you fear? what do you want? -bill t. jones. i learn from watching. i learn from listening. i'm quiet. i've been walking behind the houses i normally walk in front of. how do you see yourself? how are you perceived by others? simplify. how can emotions be represented in the form of shapes? ongoing construction, an interpretive space, sometimes the city feels brand new. big & bright. attempting to give shape & form to big ideas. receptive: able or willing to receive something, full of juice; juicy. sometimes the streets look like paintings. how do people make a relationship to knowledge? how is a desire for learning engaged? where am I from? where am I going? i'm paying attention to what i am resistant to. how do i order my world? what do I want to know? how well do I know this place? is this my place? where is my place? giving myself permission to be nervous. building relationships, co-constructing knowledge, laughter.
12/14/12
12/12/12
12/10/12
12/9/12
12/6/12
12/5/12
wednesday.
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| side of the road. |
has anyone else ever imagined having a big party in one of these wildflower filled side of the road places with cars flying by & it being too windy to hear any and all conversation & so you just spread out on your back in the grass & listen to the road while surrounded by the people you love?
12/4/12
12/3/12
12/2/12
sunday.
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| listen. |
here are three words that describe how i'm feeling right now: nervous, nervous, nervous.
11/29/12
11/28/12
11/27/12
tuesday.
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| pic of a pic. |
just flat real who you are. listened tonight to cynthia carr speak about the life and work of david wojnarowicz. she sat at a table with her laptop and read from her new book, fire in the belly. at the very end of her talk she cried and said that she should probably stop there. i wished she would have kept going.
11/26/12
11/24/12
11/20/12
11/19/12
11/18/12
11/17/12
11/16/12
11/15/12
11/14/12
wednesday.
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| belt. |
today on a break i walked west toward and through all of the stuff that makes michigan avenue near monroe street a semi electric intersection. it doesn't always feel this way but today it was buzzing with the sun shining down.
11/13/12
11/12/12
11/11/12
sunday.
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| burner. |
sitting on the edge of a fire hydrant. listening to the plans you've made for dinner on wednesday night. my phone's about to die. it's the last warm day of the year.
11/10/12
11/9/12
friday.
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| ribs, potatoes, meat. |
guy behind me in line heaved a giant bag of potatoes up onto the conveyer belt and waited as the young woman behind the register plugged in the codes for my vegetables.
11/8/12
11/7/12
11/6/12
tuesday.
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| signs. |
leave
the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. that’s where the
most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and
where you will go.
-rebecca solnit.
(obama! whew!)
11/5/12
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