Art - What makes you sticky?
One of the assignments in our Education 908 class with Charles Scott and Suzy O’Neil asked us to enter into the artistic space and create a work that might inherently bring both artist and observer into a dialogical realm. Specifically, our requirement was to:
“Create and present an artistic practice or art form that provides a means for engaging with each other and the world dialogically. All art is dialogical in nature and infused with multiple possibilities for transformative change.”
As I thought through what this might look like for me, I pondered and created many different art projects. I created a soundscape which I had hoped would create an ambiance of guiding people through various emotions … I abandoned this project. Then I rewrote a song to play off the theme of dialogue being invitational (to the tune of Walk Right In) … and thought this was moderately elementary, so used it only as a segue during presentation. I then created a video of my building and creating a backyard sanctuary; a place I spend much time in dialogue with myself, nature, my family, and others… while video is powerful, I felt that the observers would not experience the essence of the dialogic invitation as designed…
Then, during one class, it hit me – What, about the impression of self and others, is truly “sticky” from the perspectives of others? Said another way, from first and ongoing impressions – what elements of an individual do we attach meaning … those aspect we cling to which begin to define that person’s character in our mind’s eye? Out of this question, I Created “Greg’s Contemplative Art: a collection of character logos”. These logos were created with the purpose of capturing graphically the “sticky” characteristics of our professorial team – from my perspective.
