I Don't Want to Limit Materials

• I love the freedom of a visual diary to work out and try new things.  I want to use this class as a place to find out answers to all my last minute questions before landing an Art Teacher position.  I want to experiment and try new materials.  I want to be an inventor.  These answers are the proof to my art equation.

PS- I loved making one of the two pieces both last week and this.  No doubt it's the inventor in me, not the experimenter.  Left is a part of a fountain from a trip to Quebec this summer made of self-hardening clay on paper.  Right is a sharpie made dancer on an acetate print out of a printed photo of a fruit bowl from a drive to Ringwood Manor last weekend.  It overlays stitched paper with ballet positions.

• I am ready to advertise and do a performance piece.  It's something I have thought about for years.  Without cursing, I'm going to write messages to other motor vehicles on the road, inspired originally by the Blue Man Group and rekindled by Jenny Holzer, http://www.artnet.com/artwork/425958219/702/blue-blue.html on a led sign strapped to my ski rack.  I'll write things like:

1. PLEASE LET ME BY, I'M LATE FOR SCHOOL
2. NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY, THAT WASN'T NICE
3. I'M SORRY
4. THANK YOU
5. WAS THAT NECESSARY
6. MY WATER BROKE

What a coming out that would be!  And I figure, if I get pulled over, I'll just show my Pratt ID, right?

• I had a fantastic High School Art Teacher and Mentor named William Graziano.  He told me, while I was working with students in the school play, organizing the costume closet, when I came across an old wooden New Years Eve noisemaker, that these are the things I should get inspired by, these are the things to develop into lesson plans.
• Finally, to get a teaching job, it occurred to me from this last thought during class, how much does a billboard cost?
• I love this advertisement from design forward Anthropology.  Practically all type, and it made me think of the previous weeks braille solution to the in-class assignment.  PS-the candle was tied on with what appeared to be wick string, actually a candle necklace- ya!