Project #1 Reflection

While I may not have provided the blow-by-blow process of creating my final project--in reality, it didn't take shape until I drew it--I do have some reflections upon it. My topic was to create a "drawing of a drawing." After some feedback, I ruminated on what asect of the drawing I really wanted to focus on. Initially, it was the pencil--to think of absolutely critical aspect which is normally completely ignored (parallel to the brush in a painting or the keyboard for a novel). But the idea of the pencil is the idea of the artist and the act of creating. Ironically, this epiphany came to me as I was drawing the drawing of the pencil.

As it is, my final project is a drawing of a pencil (unencumbered) drawing a picture of an artist, who is subsequently drawing back, creaing a loop between the image and the viewer. That loop is meant to signify the spontaneous reactions the artist creates within the viewer through the piece he creates via the pencil which, at this point, is drawing him.

Drawing this has really solidified the idea in my mind that Carl was trying to relay, in terms of thinking about the instrument as much as the art, or even the instrument as the art itself.

Inequal Division of Resources

If there was one class I was counting on not bogging me down in projects (no pun intended), it was 202. Between my two production classes as well as the non-academic profesional show I'm producing and performing in this semester, I could really use a class that just quizzes me on absorbed knowledge and spontaneously generated observations from the week's lecture and grades me coldly and unassumingly at that fundamental level. As this is a foundation-level course, I can only hope that my forcibly simplistic projects will suffice under minimal scrutiny.

When Deadlines Attack

Even as I write my proposal, I'm not entirely certain what I'm supposed to be doing. I understand that this project is intended to create some kind of meta-experience regarding the medium I choose to work through, but should it be a genuine experience or merely a perfunctory one? At this point, I doubt I could produce the former with any level of artistic merit in the allotted time, so the perfunctory will have to be just that.

On a side note, during Carl's lecture on Michael Snow, I found it doubly amusing when he called Canada "Snow's native country," considering the fondness for puns that Snow has.

The Process of Processing

Right now I am still in the primitive phase of this project, simply trying to wrap my head around it. The nature of self-reflexivity is somewhat mercurial, and it will take some rumination to inspire the correct medium that affords me the latitude for creativity, but also is achievable in the roughly one-month timespan I have the complete it.