Source & Sequence

Source &Sequence

Content: Source n 1:the point of a stream of water: fountainhead b (1) : a point of origin (2) : one that initiates (3) one that supplies information (middle French sourse, from sourdre “to rise, spring forth”)

Method: Sequence n 1: a continuous or connected series: as a: an extended series of poems united by a single theme (a sonnet sequence)...e: a succession of scenes developing a single subject or phase of a film story

Medium: photographs, drawings, paintings, or a book

Identify your “Source”. Is there a piece of writing, music, a person, an artist, a time in history, a current event etc. that inspires you to create? What is your relationship to it? What would you want others to know about this source? Specifically how has it inspired you?

>Write a minimum 2 Paragraph Blog response about this “Source” and what it means to you. Due: F March 2 Post on Blog.

>Express these ideas in a project using the method of the “Sequence”. A sequence may be articulated in photographs, paintings, book etc. but are not limited to these methods.
The method of your sequence is to be determined by you. It can range between 5-15 images in your sequence.

M March 12 Due: Present Process (Unfinished Work) Sketches
Sand Mandala Construction-In Class Assignment
Bring examples of your ideas in response to your source. In small group discussions present 5- 8 images relating to source ideas/materials (include in your process notes) and preliminary sequence. (Note taking)

M March 19
Projects Due-Present in class.

Process:
Write> (Your personal response)
Research (library and on-line)> (Artists)
Project Development> (Materials, How to…, testing)
Feedback> (Process Critiques)
Response>
Artist References:
Francesca Woodman, Duane Michals
Sylvia Plachy - Signs & Relic
Kerim Rissin, The Journey is the Destination:
The Journals of Dan Eldon

Excerpt from- Buddha Mind In Contemporary Art
“I wanted to think about the process and constellation of acts-the literal physical acts and the practice-around which work forms. In my earlier works the presence of the hand’s trace or act was transparently present. In more recent works this “hand” has become invisible.
Increasingly a large part of my process of coming “to make” things extends out of the atmosphere of the books that I gather around me. Reading is a part of forming a landscape that allows work to happen, and a part of every project is the process of “finding” the book a project needs. It isn’t something that can happen by intention. Often, like the browse through the open stacks in the library, your eye is drawn to the red book next to the book you were specifically searching for...you open it and there where your eye is arbitrarily drawn is what you need. Searching is a sort of half-intentional and then...not. A process is set in place to allow things to find you.
So the process of making work is first one of waiting. And reading is one of the ways I wait. It is a process of suspending and readying oneself. It is a particular, peculiar balance between one’s need “ to know, “to find”,” to fix”, and one’s awareness that you can’t know, you can only “be”. How to guide this seemingly arbitrary process has something to do with how one trusts and recognizes or discriminates during the process.” -Ann Hamilton