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\nToday we experienced the class participants assignments. The assignment was “extend the photograph”. “What?” we all asked on Monday? Sean cited past examples. Polaroids were positioned throughout a space (the space we were holding class in – one of the Polaroids was still in position next to the Exit sign years later) inviting viewers to search the area carefully. A viewing device was directed toward a scene and when used a composition of an orange in the tree was revealed out of the chaos of the total background. A flashlight illuminated a patch of gravel while audio played of footsteps running for minutes and then abruptly stopping, referencing a rape in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was so open ended, we struggled with the assignment all week. That means we all came up with more ideas than we actually executed. It was a great assignment.
\nWhat happened this year? Here are a few highlights.
\nJeanne Reilly constructed an accordion display of the Center for Maine Contemporary Artists exhibition space.
\nElizabeth Opalenik constructed a book shelf, part photograph and part found objects, inviting the viewer to interact with the piece.
\nAlison Shaw created two pieces – a dyptich of prints of water submerged in water and rephotographed and a group of 9 atmospheric nautical images presented in a grid.
\nSean Harrison filled an old doctor’s bag with eggs and photographs, collecting ideas.
\nTara Law performed a candlelight reading of her writing sitting on lace beside one of her photographs.
\nVirginia Hastings created a trail of clothes leading to her performance piece, silently reading a magazine in her slip and curlers in the bathroom below a postcard of Marilynn Monroe.
\nMaria asked us to partner up, one person the photographer and the other the camera leading them blind to a composition of our choosing before asking them to “make the exposure” with our eyes. Along the way we searched for her installations.
\nJay Maisel presented a stream of consciousness slideshow.
\nGreg Heisler made two 20×24 prints with guides to view them at a specific distance to intensify the impression of space within them.
\nArduina Caponigro constructed a manageable landscape of white sands made of salt in a pinhole camera with varying tops to control the light and tiny rakes to change the dunes.
\nDee Pepe created an altar installation in a dark room with smoke and candles referencing the burning of her mother’s home.
\nRussell Kaye did a performance piece around the theme of moving, with boxes of photographs and film, destroying some of them in the process.
\nSandra Lee Phipps first displayed environmental self-portraits dressed in orange and then left the building to release orange balloons in an orange cloak symbolically releasing a self-image.
\nPeople let go in many ways.
\nWhat did I do?
\nThe idea struck me immediately on Monday when we got the assignment. It was a breakthrough moment. I got confirmation that the idea was good when I tested it at home on Thursday night in the open air. The response of the other participants further confirmed my impressions. What I did for the assignment wasn’t just an experiment. It’s a new mode for my work that I’ll start presenting this summer.
\nI projected one of my images of a sunbow in a dark room so that you couldn’t see the image. Then I invited viewers to find and help create the image by scattering flour in the air, which created a moving 3 dimensional screen. The still two dimensional image became a moving three dimensional image. A point became a line. A circle became a cylinder. Pieces were always missing but the mind completes the unfinished. The angle of view changes the appearance dramatically.
\nHow did I come up with this? Mix part Milton, part Speed Racer, part scientific diagrams, part Richard Serra, part James Turrell, and a lot of the work that I’m doing now. The experiment really worked for me. I’ve been wanting to do environmental sculpture for over a decade. This is practical and timely. I’ll post video of one or more on site installations on YouTube during my summer exhibition open studio event (August 2 – 3).
\nThe big message I got? Just get started!
\nStay tuned!
\n Check out Sean\u2019s blog entries on the class here.<\/a>
\nCheck out fellow participant Russell Kaye\u2019s blog here<\/a>
\nWho\u2019s Sean Kernan? Find out here.<\/a>
\n Read my in depth conversation with Sean here.<\/a>
\nRead Sean interviewing me here<\/a>
\n Check out my creativity workshop here.<\/a>
\n Check out Sean\u2019s creativity workshops here.<\/a>
\nYou can take Sean’s workshop at MMW this summer!<\/a><\/a>
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