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.

4/5/12

thursday.

steps.
mapping: a combination of image & abstract narrative to make visible the invisible process of moving through the day.

4/4/12

wednesday.

Add caption
making art is a way to listen to myself think and to try
to connect with other people. i pay close attention to details. i collect and produce images. i observe how my environment influences the way that i move through it.

4/3/12

tuesday.

phoebe washburn.
teachers who model the reflection processes of contemporary working artists provide students with critical thinking and research skills.  making visible the thinking processes of artists gives students the tools to examine and discuss big ideas.  an ability to dissect an artist’s big idea may help students to form their own.

4/2/12

monday.

caught.
simplify.

4/1/12

sunday.

door.
cracking the surface.

3/31/12

saturday.

sitting.
a continuous period of being seated, especially when engaged in a particular activity.

3/30/12

friday.

sky.
will i be able to do this?

3/29/12

thursday.

time.
a main task of the analyst of any patient is to maintain objectivity in regard to all that the patient brings, and a special case of this is the analyst's need to be able to hate objectively.
-d.w. winnicott.

3/28/12

wednesday.

peeling.
what occurs when students’ personal & cultural backgrounds become a context for learning to draw?

3/27/12

tuesday.

sign.
yip-yip-yip-yip... uh-huh. uh-huh.

3/26/12

monday.

cta.
how can emotions be represented in the form of shapes?

3/25/12

sunday.

up high.
back home.

3/24/12

saturday.

circles.
wondering.

3/23/12

friday.

butter.
40 feet long.  30 tons.  we saw a whale today.

thursday.

intersection.
amanda.

3/21/12

wednesday.

lines.
going back and forth.

3/20/12

tuesday.

a bucket in the trash.
    finding connections between adolescent development and the work of artists and researchers, gives educators a foundation for understanding adolescence as a fluid process, capable of bouncing back and forth in time.

3/19/12

monday.

near ashland & paulina.
scaling a church.

3/18/12

sunday.

people.
we drove past a smashed semi and three totaled cars.  we listened to an interview about spirituality and mark rothko on the radio.  we stopped for groceries.

3/17/12

saturday.

hello.
in a particular place.

3/16/12

friday.

color.
the windows are open.

3/15/12

thursday.

outside.
gregory first tried twisting the top of it, then pushing.  next he tried pulling it apart from its body.  with a smile he said, "it IS a pen!!" his glasses, strapped around his head, were bright blue just like the monkey bars.  the two of us became sharks on a bridge.  he asked about my notebook.  he showed me his teeth.

3/14/12

wednesday.

mca.
simplicity makes me happy.
 -alicia keys.

3/13/12

tuesday.

truck painting.
circle the one object closest to what you were just thinking about.