"Do It," Hug someone you barely know, . . neat way to top off spring break.

 

“In a moment,” Sitting with the flames.

“In a moment,” Sitting with the Flames.

 

There was some warmth as I passed by.

from a caged dance, gas fed the coals.

It emanates waves that bend the window panes,

and lap the breeze, broken by a passerby.

It resumes with warmth contained in a parabola.

Quick reach out to them and bend the light.

It neglects the forms nearby,

to dance before windows and the trees.

 

The flame trades warmth with the orb. 

The waves ripple the branches that shape the trees.

Is it the wind that moves the flames and reshapes the leaves? 

No, not the wind nor the limbs that bend before the wave. 

It is the subtle change reflected in the glass.

Where heat before the limbs is the subtle change within scene.

It is subtle and the limbs are not.  They should bow, but they do not. 

It turned for the chimes to wait for due course.

 

It turns to what it knows best and feathers the branches,

and the limbs dance again in the windows with the waves.

It gave up to soon.  Cool shapes are favored in the glass. 

It has to choose, but can’t, the reflection be both limbs and glass?

I am not the flame, nor the shape that folds the waves of each chime.

They are stubborn both, now the glass wants to move and dance in the waves.

Share what you have in store before the chime again, it marks the time.

Tick-tock.  You can wait.  The flame will keep you company.

Do it - Melissa May Beutler

 

Arcangel, Cory

(2012)

Photoshop CS: 11 by 8.5 inches, 300 DPI, RGB, square pixels, default gradient "Russell's Rainbow" (turn transparency off), mousedown y=1100 x=500, mouseup y=2100 x=1450.

Do It -- Rebekah Ashby

 

Do It- Jess Hebertson

 

Do It - Calli Sumsion

 

Original Instructions:

 Pg. 159 FELDMANN, Hans-Peter

Homework (or Do It Yourself) (1996)

 

Look for a photo of a person who seems likeable or attractive. It’s important that you can assume this person is dead. You don’t need proof, your assumption is enough. The photograph might be found a variety of places: magazines, flea-markets, a family photo album. In any case, you must take great care in the search, which will continue until your intuition tells you that you’ve found the right photo. However, it is important that you pick a complete stranger.

You take this photo and choose a frame according to your taste, as with any home decoration. This can be a wall frame or a standing frame, or possibly a case that you carry around.

Having brought this photo into your daily life, and now looking at it frequently, you should, as often as you like, think about who this person might have been like, about the cause of his or her death. You should find out how close you can get to this person, and at what point you would him or her a name…

 

The image I used:

What Happened as well as Impressions and Thoughts:

•        At first, I thought it would be easy to find a person because it said to follow my intuition, but it was hard convincing myself that a photo of someone met the requirements of being likeable or attractive, a stranger, and dead.
•        I chose the elderly man on the very right of this Alumni Insurance Program ad in a BYU magazine. I assumed that he was a very likeable because of this family photo and I’m assuming it is wife on the very left.
•        I stuck this photo with everything else I do on my corkboard in my room back at home. It literally took a few seconds until I decided that his name was John, graduated from BYU, and was a surgeon. But I never got further than that because I could not really connect with this stranger.
•        I have many photos in my room that spark joy (mostly art prints and polaroid pics.) I display these photos because I know these people and can relate to memories that happened with them, compared to a person that I have to make up their life.

Adnan, Etel (2012) Revisited - TDMorris

 

"Do It" - Andrea Martinez

 Adnan, Etel

Instructions: 

1. Take a white piece of paper, 1 by 1 meter. Find a good, sharp pencil, sharpen it if its point is dull. 

2. With your pencil draw a grid of 9 little squares by 9 little squares, 81 squares in all of the equal size.

3. Take 10 crayons (oil pastels). 

4. Think of the rainbow, its colors, its freshness.

5. Let’s have 10 colors, for example red, purple, orange, yellow, dark blue, light blue, brown, ochre, dark green, light green. Keep them in this order (or any order you wish).

6. Fill the first upper left side little square with ted, evenly painted red, carefully painted.

7. Then purple for the next square, then orange, then yellow, then dark blue, then light blue, then brown, then ochre, then dark green, then light green. You will be at the end of your top row. 

8. Go back and start on the new line at the left side with light green, which will fall under the red square. 

9. Then continue: red, purple, orange, yellow, and so until you fill in the last little square on the right of your bottom line, which will be red. 

You will obtain thus regular patterns, rhythm, brilliance, a nice painting. You won’t need special skills for such a beautiful result. Try it. You may, but I hope not, be weary in the process…

Process: 

    For my process, I change the measure of the square and it is a little small. Also, I change the material because I don’t have any crayons or oil pastels. So I decided to use markers. The results were amazing, I liked how the colors work together. Like the artists said it gives that brilliance, rhythm, and nice painting finish. 

Results:

Do It - Emilee Thomas

"Do It" - Allison Ipson

Etel Adnan Painting 

 

                         Idea for Conceptual Art - "Do it,"  TDMorris 03/03/21

1. Paint a wall in the front room with an alternative perspective, such as a window or door next to a practical window or door in full scale.
2. Ensure the painted opening shows the doorway,  or window is open.
3. Take a series of single photos of a person entering that space through the solid wall.
4. The above images have to show time-lapse photography covering the march of time as indicated by the shadows on the wall to include hours instead of minutes for the action to take place.
5. Include in this series of imagery sounds or music, or indistinguishable dialogue and edit the passage into a video.
6. The person seemingly passing through this wall should be in historical costume, uniform or other dress that is not common in our modern world.
7. In the video the character should look back and show emotion of elation, but turns again to show foreboding of the unknown.
8. Show the same person looking back into the room through the real window and have him, or her smile and show outwardly show joy.
9. Note: if the this room is unable to be produced a green screen project can be envisioned that will show the same action.
10. If green screen is used the image inside the window should show an unusual natural environment, such as the ocean, moon scape, or the height of clouds, cliffs or from a old wooden bridge over a height that would make it frightening.
11. Mime the words, "Darn, I left my toothbrush in my other suit."
12. Fade out in a montage of imagery and unusual patterns.
13. Start another sequence repeating the same thing above.

Text piece - Melissa May Beutler

Choose a book

Rip out pg 71

Line 1: block out all words except for #4 and 5

Line 2: block out all words except for #3 and 4

Skip two lines 

Line 5: block out all words except for #5 and 6

Line 6: block out all words except for #6 and 7

Repeat for next paragraph, then cut page in half

Choose new booking 

Rip out pg 71

Line 1: block out all words except for #3 and 4

Line 2: block out all words except for #2 and 3

Skip two lines 

Line 5: block out all words except for #4 and 5

Line 6: block out all words except for #5 and 6

Glue first half of book 1 pg before book 2 paragraph, glue second half after book 2 paragraph 

Text Piece - Emilee Thomas

1. Take a pad of paper with you to a local store.

2. Go to five various aisles and write down a word or phrase from tags or packaging of items that you see.

3. Compose a short story using these words/phrases. 

4. Leave a copy of your short story within or under one of the items you selected words from. 

Short Story:

Words: Pot, club, broccoli, walnut, little tikes

“That walnut!” Yelled Brenna as a man, holding broccoli in one hand and pot in the other, stumbled out of a club and bumped into innocent little tikes. 

Text Piece- Jess Hebertson

1.Pick up a book you’ve read a few times, maybe something you bought second hand. Make sure it’s a book that’s lived a good life but now sits on your shelf collecting dust.

2.Tear out some pages.

3.Read between the lines, mark out a poem. Make something new, create a new meaning inside the words that are already there.

 

Text Piece - Allison Ipson

INSTRUCTIONS:

1)    Choose a book off the shelf.

2)    Count the chapters and pick a number between 1 and the number of chapters there are.

3)    Continue to pick a number until all the numbers have been chosen.

4)    In the order chosen, turn to the appropriate chapter. Write down the first sentence you see within that chapter.

5)    Create a short story by combining the sentences. They must remain in the same order, but you can add a filler sentence between each one if needed. 

 

SENTENCES:

1)    Mary Alice dodged cobwebs and tried not to brush against anything. 

2)    You could say one thing for grandma’s method.

3)    My tap shoes!

4)    “Now I’ve got to change my shoes and walk all the way to the lumberyard in this heat,” she said, as if she hadn’t brought it all on herself. 

5)    She was tough as an old boot, or so we thought. 

6)    When grandma’s back was turned, Mary Alice broke open a biscuit and stuck a sausage patty inside it. 

7)    She stood at her door, large as life – larger, framed against the light from her front room. 

8)     “Be real careful about calling a customer a liar,” she remarked. 

9)    The day of judgement came. 

 

STORY: 

Mary Alice dodged cobwebs and tried not to brush against anything. You could say one thing for Grandma’s method: Nobody would ever look up here, with all the dirt and grime they’d have to climb through to get to anything. Mary Alice gasped, “My tap shoes!” I looked down at the now brown shoes and tried not to laugh. “Now I’ve got to change my shoes and walk all the way to the lumberyard in this heat,” she said, as if she hadn’t brought it all on herself. After all, this had been her idea. Grandma was tough as an old boot, or so we thought: the reason this room had remained a secret as long as it had. 

 

Earlier that day, when Grandma’s back was turned, Mary Alice had broken open a biscuit and stuck a sausage patty inside it. Grandma stood at her door, large as life – larger, framed against the light from her front room. “C’mon!” whispered Mary Alice, “Right now might be our only chance to find out what Grandma is hiding in the attic!” Looking back at Grandma’s hulking form facing off the traveling salesman on the porch, I could hear her words float in on the breeze: “Be real careful about calling a customer a liar,” she had remarked. I shivered. Whatever we found up here, the day of judgement was about to come.