personal manifesto - Elle

My Personal Manifesto

I find beautiful disasters and organized messes.

I discover planned accidents.

I hear the voice of color and texture.

I understand the ink when it tells me what it’s thinking.

I believe the brush when it says it’s tired and out of shape.

I sympathize with the canvas when it admits it feels empty and lonely.

I feel the button, when it won’t click.

I smile with the messages written on the foggy window.

I see the waves of heat from the lights as they focus on their subject.

I smell success after all nighters in the studio.

I admire the hand after a masterpiece.

I crave the salivating sweetness of a freshly frosted cupcake.

I listen to footsteps as they beat a rhythm down the sidewalk.

I fiddle with the feelings of confusion.

I ponder the ideas of the artists.

I question the shadows stretched across the walls.

I fear not knowing, and not finding.

I wait for the award of patience.

I desire reaction.

I grasp the lens as it slides into position.

I dream of realities and impossibilities.

I seek the limits of the imagination.

I push the thread through the edges of imperfect fabric.

I lift the worry from the employer.

I speak with faith and religion.

I tell the story of stress and dedication.

I ride out the storm till its end.

I realize when late, gets too late.

I choose to make things happen.

I help engineer the magic of a rainbow.

I swear to never swear.

I confess to imperfectness.

I anticipate the evils of the unbelieving.

I accept I may have no control over any situation.

I scratch at the goose bumps raised on my arms.

I know art will always be in my soul.

Weston-Page 39 of this is not a book.

Posted this comment in the GSC building.

These thoughts keep running through my head, this is my manifesto.

A Personal Manifesto. 

• Art conveys emotion, transports the viewer and encourages connections, good, bad or anywhere in between. 
• Procrastination is a fantastic tool.  
• Don't let other's ideas strangle out your own, instead use them like playmates for your own growth.  
• Abandon fear, run from it!  
• Take what you like, leave what you don't.
• Heart break is another fantastic tool.
• I encourage extreme swings in emotion.
• Surround yourself with an artist community.
• Don't create student work, do your best.
• Decide when you've finished based off deadlines.
• Forgive your mistakes immediately.
• Give yourself half a chance- give yourself enough time before becoming frustrated.
• Keep an open mind to new ideas.
• Music. Inspires.

~Marie Ward

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Life Manifesto

Just some stuff I've learned over the course of time and what I wish to live by as I get older. -Melissa Beasley

Ideologies and Boxes. A manifesto by Zackariah Ausgotharp

personal manifesto...caitlincraig

Self Portrait

"Matt"

final project- Matt Tervort & Katelin Jensen

We decided to build a fort, stay the night in it and invite friends to join us in our fort experience.

attraction/ repulsion: Katelin Teresa.

For my attraction/ repulsion piece, I decided to make art representing my mom's ongoing battle with cancer. I decided to leave the 'r' unfinished to represent that it wasn't gone, and that she will be continuing her treatment for the rest of her life. 

Manifesto

Matthew C. Tervort

I believe in an art that is, cracked dried and bloody

I believe in an art that is, smooth and moist

I believe in an art that is, white fresh linens

I believe in an art that, breaths in with Spring and out with Winter

I believe in an art that is, processed

I believe in an art that is, that perfect moment where all is good

I believe in an art that is, running, anywhere and nowhere, the rest is simple

I believe in an art that is, not understood completely at first

I believe in an art that is, sunrays

I believe in an art that is, rough grimy and dirty

I believe in an art that is, pain, a pain that few understand, a pain that guys will have boxing matches for just so they can feel this pain

I believe in an art this is, in the rain, kissing, standing, crying, and holding a loved one close

I believe in an art that is, crying and thinking all is lost

I believe in an art that is, grown from death

Art is not my life, my life is Art

Self Portrait After Fifteen Minutes

For my self-portrait, I decided to be deaf, dumb, and blind for 24 hours. I definitely didn't think it through all that well, which is a good thing, because I probably wouldn't have gone through with it if I had. I was surprised by how emotionally difficult it was.

But the reward was definitely greater than the hard parts. Because I was entirely in the hands of the people around me, I felt so intensely happy every time I interacted with someone, and from that I got the title for this project.

Every time I touch someone, I fall in love with them.

Science Project

These are a few of the thirty handmade covers I made for a four track EP I recorded called The Science Project. I'm not entirely comfortable posting the songs themselves online-- partially because some of them are very personal, but mostly because I like the idea of them being distributed only by face-to-face, physical communication, something that's missing when you only download music.

All the copies I made have been taken, but if anyone would still like one, go ahead and ask! I don't mind making more.

1. The Science of Being Alone
2. If That Was A Dream
3. Toothpaste Song
4. The Boy Who Had Never Seen A Woman

Final

This is a still from a video I (with a ton of help from Ryan Pratt) made as my final piece. The video is set to a song I wrote called Bridget Bardot, which tells the story of a girl who is desperate to grow up. She looks up to adults and has a romanticized view of growing up, thinking that becoming a woman will mean she'll become like the glamorous actresses she admires.

But we all know it doesn't work that way.