5/28/12

monday.

light.
i'm staring.  time to start a new project.

5/27/12

sunday.

shell.
woke up at 5:30am.  went for a walk with the sun.  a guy on a bike rode past with his 2 dogs.  i said good morning.

5/25/12

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5/23/12

wednesday.

chicago teachers union rally.
i tried to be a journalist this afternoon.  mm..it didn't work.

5/22/12

tuesday.

a heap.
sometimes she hummed to herself as she walked, and other times she listened quietly to the songs inside her.  there were all kinds of music in her thoughts.  some she heard over radios, and some was in her mind already without her ever having heard it anywhere.
-carson mccullers.

5/21/12

monday.

rubber.
we walked across old railroad tracks and watched a red crane sweep a truck from the bridge.  we peeked through tears along a fence and found hidden gears and scraps of metal.  ...a secret place i like to go.

5/20/12

sunday.

porch.
SUNSET.

5/19/12

saturday.

angles.
the width of a paint roller.

5/18/12

friday.

window and wall.
the body language on our street could have been studied for its gesture-perfect evasions.
-ben marcus.

5/17/12

thursday.

sculpture.
stack, mound, pyramid, mass, quantity; collection, accumulation, assemblage, stockpile, hoard.

5/16/12

wednesday.

pearl.
every squawk and trail of smells along the sand caught her attention.  i watched her nose wiggle.  i threw the ball.

5/15/12

tuesday.

leaves.
never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.
-johnny carson.

5/14/12

monday.

swimming.
green tape, white paint, the shape of a mouth cut out of a magazine.

5/13/12

sunday.

sidewalk.
what do you love?  what do you fear?  what do you want?
-bill t. jones.

5/12/12

saturday.

back door.
with each flutter of my eyelashes a curtain lowers and rises...
-maurice merleau-ponty.

5/11/12

friday.

sacks of sand.
one summer goal: spend a lot of time near the water.

5/10/12

thursday.

hanging.
i learn from watching.  i learn from listening.  i'm quiet.

5/9/12

wednesday.

on.
a clear globe with shadows.

5/8/12

tuesday.

shapes.
i've been walking behind the houses i normally walk in front of.

5/7/12

monday.

in and out.
how do you see yourself?
how are you perceived by others?

5/6/12

sunday.

backdrop.
1A.5a. evaluate how expressing one's emotions in different situations affects others.
 

5/5/12

saturday.

railings.
walking down, moving up.

5/4/12

friday.

paint.
what would it look like if educators provided opportunities for silence and solitude?
-michael nakkula & eric toshalis.

5/3/12

thursday.

floor.
feeling energized.

5/2/12

wednesday.

a movie i made with music by mogwai.

mapping through movement.

5/1/12

tuesday.

form.
this morning i watched a pigeon dip its feet in a leaky drinking fountain.

4/30/12

monday.

mapping time.
this is the voice.

4/29/12

sunday.

steak on a truck.
we filmed people walking through an alley from a parking lot behind a big grocery store.

4/28/12

saturday.

on sacramento near diversey.
locating a physical expression.

4/27/12

friday.

the point.
where do i fit?

4/26/12

thursday.

lock.
what's in there?

4/25/12

shadow.
a smooth day.

4/24/12

tuesday.

tube.
we walked through the neighborhood.

4/23/12

monday.

bball.
...just to be able to have the game function as a kind of dreamscape to..to..impossible.
-robin rhode.

4/22/12

sunday.

lifting.
2 bags of groceries, 1 from cb2, 15 steps between them

4/21/12

saturday.

van buren and wabash.
sitting, standing, up, down, LOUD!

4/20/12

friday.

net.
how can we relearn to enjoy curiosity so that the pursuit of new experiences and new knowledge becomes self-sustaining?
-mihaly csikszentmihalyi

4/19/12

thursday.

culture.
the system is not broken.  it is working exactly the way it's been designed.
-erica meiners.

4/18/12

wednesday.

barking.
learning is fueled by fluidity, flexibility and self-reflection.

4/17/12

tuesday.

covered.
i painted ten pictures of the same shape.  hot pink, dark green and blue.  the shape is my apartment. each composition represents the different ways in which i move through this space.

4/16/12

monday.

parking lot.
thinking about how to map the paths i take.  realizing my eyes are drawn to big brick walls.

4/15/12

sunday.

shoes.
two up high and one below.  all untied.

4/14/12

saturday.

materials.
the bridge i'm on shakes as cars zoom past.

4/13/12

friday.

catching.
...to having to face the fact of a warmth and a glow and a delight flooding up from within, dictated by no external copy but existing and developing and changing in its own right, as a result of what one was looking at.
-marion milner.

4/12/12

thursday.

up.
from architecture to zoology and from heart surgery to structural engineering, the doodle, diagram, map, sketch, outline, draft, 3d model and intricate rendering, all contribute to a long and complex process combining the eye, the mind, the imagination and the hand.
-barry phipps.

4/11/12

wednesday.

texture.
watch out for my roots.

4/9/12

monday.

magic.
the flow and weight of the line.

4/8/12

sunday.

in between exhibitions.
in understanding artmaking as an opportunity to speak about and reflect on issues important in the lives of students, the process of making art begins to mirror a process of formulating an identity.

4/7/12

saturday.

trash can, 2 purses.
there is a radiance that comes from putting different things together.
-meredith monk.

4/6/12

friday.

beginning.
and also the sound of the water when you hear it, kind of a little lap of sound.
-merce cunningham.