One Tough Class 1/09/08

The 9th of Jan was the first day of Concept Studio, I can tell this class is going pull- push -force and wrangle my brain into spots that may feel at times scary and cramped but will eventually lead my mind to a place of continuous freedom and expansion. I accept this with all my faculties willinging actually joyfully-like the top of the roller coaster b 4 you dive!
I believe this class is really about pushing hte envelope or even creating a new one perhaps. Brain storm thoughts from class ....smart observant people find connections everywhere between all things... would it be possible to cook a gourmet meal with found food? What inspires sometimes forces artist to create?? Why do certain things last ? What makes a pattern endure? maybe its nature of holding it's true nature while constantly changing. i am one of those people who must create or make things..if i do not my brain inside becomes tangled and dark, not a comforting place for me to dwell. It seems that the creation of "art " clears my internal clutter -basically i think we all have things ideas objects inside us as ideas and we must birth these notions into the outside world ,even if they are not the perfect child they still need to live. This forceful expulsion of self on the world reminds me of the macro micro idea, again a pattern that endures. sometimes i feel i am reflecting the world, consuming ideas sometimes i don't get to choose what i consume {gotta work on that}.

Anyone ever heard of gleaning? webster's says--1to collect ( grain left by the reapers) 2 to collect ( facts etc) gradually- gleanings. There is a great film, french documentary called The Gleaners and I. This title comes from a famous painting called The Gleaners portraying woman in the forground and figures in a field behind her. These gleaners were usually poor poor and would come to the fields after the big machines and salvage what ever potatoes or food they could, there was always something left. In the documentary the filmmaker explores this notion even further. Artists who work with only found objects" one man's trash..another man's treasure." people who eat only what they find. I like the idea that a person can convert something seen as refuse into something that sustains or inspires them.