TST (Teaching for Studio Thinking) 7085 50 ideas

50 ideas

(DISCLAIMER)  I had this beautifully laid out on pages, but the copy and paste method seems to have taken on a life of its own.....  so forgive the random nature of the numbers...I tried to change it but the program would not allow this so alas, it is what it is.

The first bunch have more description and as the list continues, the words are more thematic in nature and could fit into the medium and bigger ideas of the first dozen or so.  Also, I have sub categories under some,.

1. Manifestation: On going series of evolving images relevant to personal life events and how I want to shape the reality which I live in. Narratives/ charcoal.  BIG * current pieces are from the theme... Weaving the universe 

1. Appropriation: (I constantly do this) anyway  combining unlike images to recreate realities. Visual journal/altered book: Any of the themes further down the list can work with this.

1. Exchange journal.. Dialog in the space between a visual exchange. A project which involves more than one artist.  HOW FUN would it be to do this in a class, we each start with a journal (which we will then end up with) and as the class progresses, the journals are exchanged and worked in, in response to previous entries....
2. Collaborative piece: group responding to a singe question with in a single large composition

1. Juxtaposition: Contrasting events with what is happening on the outside with that which is true with in. Any medium.... Thinking charcoal -

1. Memory: The fluidity of memory and how events experienced at one point in time are then perceived differently as the older you looks back... Layering, transparencies, paint and collage, using some subtractive methods

1. Ritual: Symbolic totems, objects of power. Found objects, altering to make personal-

1. Myth: Including story and the word to examine belief. Collage/ mixed media, working in layers, could also be journal.

1. Environment #1:  Glass worlds, the intricacies of tine plants, murrini, building from the inside out. (Hot glass)

1. Environment/Time #2: Photo montage, narratives of moments in space and time captured in a singular over lapping moment. (re-occurring people)

1. Capturing a space through out the day expanding the moment so that lighting     

     and mood alter with the passage or time. (re-occurring space)

1. Environment #3: Transforming Space.  My house is an evolving art work. (Stained glass windows to alter the feeling of a room with prism and color.)

1. Koi No Yokan (Japanese) (theme for a drawing)
   The sense upon first meeting a person that the two of you are going to fall in love.

11. Mamihlapinatapai (Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego)This word captures that special look shared between two people, when both are wishing that the other would do something that they both want, but neither want to do * Want to incorporate this concept with several others into a larger piece from #1.

1. Spirit of place A: Mosaic: kitchen tile mosaic capturing the spirit of room
2. Spirit of place B: Mosaic with students in an apprentice like creation in the school
3. Betrayal: Mixing word with image? .. Playing with perception and how one expression maybe interpreted completely different than intended
4. Collision: emphasis of difference with a surrender at the meeting place
5. Surrender
6. Secrets
7. Transcendence
8. Vision
9. Tension
10. Saturation
11. Evolution
12. Communion
13. Combustion
14. Repression
15. Regression
16. Origin
17. Relationship
18. Conduit
19. Denial
20. Projection
21. Intrusion
22. Invasion
23. Revolutionary
24. Power

1. Filter

1. Disconnect

1. Courage
2. Destruction
3. Perception (this really applies to all of it!)
4. Ancient Voice
5. Sound
6. Reflection
7. Illusion
8. Consciousness
9. The five senses
10. Nature elements
11. Personal History
12. “A wrinkle in Time”
13. Stillness
14. Physiology of Mind