1. Relationships: a comic video of me
discussing my international tour of love. A video mix of spoken word,
images, photos and music
2. Impermanence: a photo collage, of symbols, maybe mandalas, representing the
impermanence of life done on Photoshop
3. Journey: a photo college with watercolor painting representing journeys
within myself and within my world done in Photoshop
4. Connections: using various symbolic and literal images of things that
connect and/or facilitate connections in a video that has quick edited cuts
between literal static images and longer fluid cuts between moving images of
symbolic representations. Done in Final Cut Pro
5. Seeking / exploring: using one static image that will reappear in a series of
collages. One being within dating sites, churches, schools…one being within
nature, art, travel, family….one being within forbidden pleasures, drugs, under
ground. Done on Photoshop
6. Hidden Meanings/ Secret Codes: cut and paste image/words/poem on paper,
paint on top form into lamp shade, put light under it with specific
instructions on what needs to be done before you turn it on.
7. Illumination: photos of light paintings made by opening up the aperture to
allow the more light in while at the same time moving the camera in a different
directions or a pattern to create a trail and impression of moving light. Use
these as the top of trees instead of branches in a Photoshop format
8. Sassiness / Courageousness: Quotes by sassy women famous and local speaking
of how they succeed in getting what they need/ want from life. Pair these with
an abstracted cropped shot taken from a photo of each. Display in a short
video.
9. Emotional Intelligence: a step-by-step instructional video on what it is,
how it works and how to improve on it. Create an interactive power point type
video with links and pair it with edited cuts between the instructions and over
exaggerated video examples of each value paired with its opposite. Done in
Final cut pro.
10. Disguise: A series of 4 collages that show forms of disguise such as women
or men with tattooed makeup, juxtaposed with tribal people. Stage costumes Vs.
burning man costumes, The outside Vs. inside appearance of a homes, cars,
institutions, Studio sets, The Wizard of Oz…Done with Photoshop
11. Symbolism: I envision an installation with mannequins in
different poses doing things with computers and cell phones that have taken the
place of real human interaction. There will be a projection of old stock
footage of humans having real human interaction shown on
the mannequins and a recorded loop of
a phone ringing in the back ground with the
voice of a person speaking about the pain they felt when after
being desperate to make human connection and trying to reach 6 different
family and friends to talk to know one answered their phones and only one sent
a text saying I cant talk now.
12. Unorthodox/ Bohemian: For this I see a series of photos, one of women and
man laying on their backs, naked on a pile of open books in a back isle of a
library, with their heads touching. One with a joint and one reading Anais Nin.
Next, the same couple, this time the man is in a tutu with fishnets and boots
and the women is in a shirt with tie and no pants. They are in a band room with
instruments all around. She is straddling a tuba and he is dancing with a
cello. Last, they are both naked but their entire bodies or painted gold. They
are acting like statues in the middle of a downtown square and posing like the
sculpture of The Kiss by Rodin.
13. Surrender: This can be a video that starts out with a person in fast motion
going through the motions of their typical day, with a stressed look on their
face and with them having to go around, jump over and climb up things to get to
where they need to be. The second part is them having a daydream or flashback
of child hood, or the Buddha meditating and then you see them falling backwards
from where they are and cut to them falling in slow motion into a calm lake.
The video then goes in reverse and they come up out of the water and fall up
into them waltzing with a women dressed like the statue of liberty in a big
open field of wild flowers.
14. Ritual: This will be a performance piece. A man that wakes and does his
push-ups, a women washing her hair, a women doing yoga, a man poring
coffee, a boy walking dog, a girl lighting a candle. All of this would be
choreographed to a rhythm of beating drums. Each action would be deliberate and
pronounced.
15. Memory: A video showing 4 different elderly people speaking of where they
were when certain events in history happened and how they felt. And then each
speaking of a cherished memory. This will be mixed and edited with photos,
music, and effects to produce a traveling back and forth in time type of feel.
16. Reverence: A documentary on how we do not honor our elderly or take care of
them. Show how other cultures honor and celebrate their elders compared to how
we stick ours in homes and leave them with strangers to care for them.
17. Craving: a video with zoomed-in, up close abstract shots of peoples mouths,
nose, eyes, ears, hands, feet, cleavage, crotch. All of these in a box grid
that cuts between the abstract and another image all Layering and fluctuating
with nothing but the sounds people make like “mmmmh”, or “oh yah”, or “oooh”,
and then a stream of barely audible spoken thoughts.
18. Fascination: A series of photos of grand, awesome architecture mostly in
black and white yet certain areas will be hand colored for emphasis.
19. Devotion: An assemblage of iconic figures, religious statues, holy cards
and images of saints, deities, gods, glued onto the frame of a large mirror. On
the mirror, around the frame, will be glued photos of modern devotional items
such as cell phones, FaceBook, gyms, Starbucks…in the center of mirror will be
a small glass paperweight and under it will be the a photo of a person looking
in a mirror.
20. Evolution: a series of 4 collages that will be hung in a square. Starting
on the top left, each college will represent a time period. Like the card
layout of a tarot deck. Past, present, desires, future vision. The collages
will be toned from light to dark.
21. Ageism: Photos of 4 elderly debilitated people, each one in the center
of a mandala type diagram, or mind map with other photos, paintings, comics,
quotes, songs…around their photos that represent what they have done,
accomplished, contribute and celebrate in their past and present lives, and one
with a vividly colored photo of each dressed in flashy clothes and hats…and
each with some facial and hand expression such as sticking their tongue out,
flipping the bird, Laughing big with head tilted back, or even one bending over
and flashing their behind.
22. Imitation: Do a video showing the Monty Python skit, Ministry of Silly
Walks and then have shots of several different people imitating the silly walk
or making one up themselves and having others follow down the sidewalk, in the
grocery store, in the mall, around MU campus…
23. Attention: A video showing my thought
process, how quickly it changes, how it jumps back and forth in time, how it
rushes in like a tidal wave and quickly rushes back out. How it skips through
channels and pages of images, memories, do to lists. How it has creative ideas
at any given moment yet never at the best time to do anything about them. This
will be a very quick edited video with images, text, spoken word, and the song
from The Sound Of Music, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria, in the
background.
24. Improvisation: An improv performance piece that allows audiences
to participate. It will be an installation that shows an interactive
video that has the beginning of a story; song, drawing, and performance to
which you can choose which to interact with. You click on the chosen window and
then are able to add your contribution but you only have one 1.5 minutes to
respond forcing you to be quick, and not spend too much time thinking about it.
25. Saturated: 4 different diagrams of a brain, each will be black and white
with only one part with a saturated color in each section and then an arrow
from that section pointing to a symbolic representation of what that brain area
controls. Done on a water colored background with pasted on brains and hand
colored with marker.
26. Pay it Forward: This will be a video of several different acts of random
kindness. Such as paying for the person in line behind you in a coffee line. A
group washing cars in the hospital parking lot. Handing out roses, colorful art
cards, homemade treats to the elderly in a nursing home. Performing a silly
dance on the steps of the courthouse.
27. Flamboyance: A photo essay of artistic friends I have that go to Burning
Man events and dress up, create large scale installation art and
assume characters that are their alter egos. This will be a short video with
photos, text, video excerpts of each talking, and a music
track underneath.
28. Metaphor: I see a wall, or board with a bunch of representations of
arms with hands open, reaching out. Mannequins painted different colors,
black&white and color photos, abstract carved, plaster, ceramic, wire,
foam, stuffed...all reaching out with lights from below to create shadows on
the other walls.
29. Vision quest/ manifestation: a large Collage of a child planting seeds in
the bottom left corner with painting of stylized plants and trees coming out to
cover the rest of the page that are made out of bits and pieces of his dreams.
All of this framed by text all along the boarder.
30. Ridiculousness: An improv performance
piece that allows audiences to participate. It will be an
installation that shows an interactive video that has the beginning of a story,
song, drawing, and performance to which you can choose which to interact with.
You click on the chosen window and then are able to add your contribution but
you only have one 1.5 minutes to respond forcing you to be quick, and not spend
too much time thinking about it.
31. Vulnerability / Fragility: This will be a sculpture made with high-heel
shoes decoupage with the ex-rays of knee and ankle fractures
32. Inquisitive: I see this as an
interactive installation piece on a computer. The name will be
"Down the Rabbit Hole" The screen will have instructions on
choosing one out of 4 things the person is curious about and entering into the
search. This will then turn into an animated type program or game that leads
the person down a rabbit hole and into a landscape where basic information will
be displayed and then other links to songs, poems, stories, art... to follow
that are related to the original.
33. Penetrating: This will be a collage with a body in the center and arrows of
words piercing the mind, colorful birds flying into the chest and a kundalini
type snake going into the stomach and up out through the top of the
head.
34. Instinct: A video with abstracted images and a voice over of a person
telling the story of how they started to turn off
their analytical thoughts of doubt and use
their initial gut reaction and first emotional response to guide
them.
35. Mysterious: A shadow box painted in black with a coat
of iridescent glitter. There will be a small curtain to open to see
what is inside the box. Inside will be an iPod with earphones. The iPod will
play a mix of electronic sounds that are familiar yet strangely indistinguishable. These
sounds will be recordings made from nature and human noises.
36. Humor: a ceramic lamp that is made of a bunch of alien eyes
that have holes in the center of the pupil to let the light shine out.
36. Forgiveness: a photo essay of the way different people practice forgiveness
and the cathartic release of guilt, worry and sorrow. A series of 12 in frames
set in a circle on a table and in the center is a small fire pit with a lit
candle in the middle. At the bottom of each frame is a small tray of scrap
paper and a pen to write your own offering to burn and leave in the pit.
37. Myth: I see two big valentine shaped heart candy boxes, open and side-by-side
on a wall. Inside each candy space is a series of small photos of a
women dressing and preparing to receive her valentine but she waits,
the candles melt, she destroys the table and sits crying. The other
box with photos of a women, picking flowers, making cards, making treats, and
handing them out to homeless, drive-troughs, a police man, a teen girl at a bus
stop, her grandpa...
38. Priorities: This will be a video of a person with a shotgun doing target
practice. His targets will be blown up photos of all the material,
worldly distractions that keep him from his priorities. After he
blows them away, he walks through the woods and all we hear are his footsteps
and his breath as he looks up through the trees to see birds
and squirrels and he smiles. The camera follows him to a playground
were he proceeds to jump on a marry-go-round with three other kids and the
image of them spinning turns into an image that morphs into
several symbolic round images that represent chi, life cycles, mandalas
and then fades to white.
39. Intertextuality: This will be a comic
series of famous statues and sculptures hanging out in modern settings with
captions and text. Using Photoshop.
40. Sharing: This will be a video of a
Polyamorus group of 4, people, that share a home, gardening, cooking,
parenting, homeschooling and all the rest. The video will be layered with text,
facts, quotes and voice-overs of the joys and disappointments of
sharing your love and your bed with more then one.
41. Polysemy: a collage made with a sewing
pattern, layered with a block print of a pattern and pasted text print on top
of the print.
42. Responsibility: A photo essay showing
people engaging in different acts that are linked to responsible
behavior and a sense of personal duty or ethics.
43. Play: I see this simply as an interactive
installation that offers a pogostick, a hoppity-hop, a bongo board, a
RockemSockem game, a battling tops game, some yoyos, some silly glasses, hats
and mustaches to try on and some play-dough. On the walls will be
photos of other adults playing on these things and silly music such as the Benny
Hill show music will be playing in the background. Instructions on how to use
the equipment will be displayed and people will be encouraged to play.
44. Disability: A photo essay on not only
people with real disabilities but of others with mental or emotional kinds
as well. Each will have a sentence of how they view the word, and how their
visible or invisible disability has negatively and or positively affected their
lives.
45. Passion: An abstracted oil color painting
with lots of texture and movement in muted colors. Added into the paint will
be brightly colored bits and pieces of torn clothes and objects that
suggest a night of wild sex.
46. Fantasy/ Illusion: A watercolor paining with
mixed media with a one-point perspective leading the eye back into an otherworldly
space.
47. Perseverance: This can be a video of
a few chosen famous and everyday people/children that have overcome great
adversity and have amazing stories to tell.
Edited in-between photos, commentary and running text about
each person's life story, will be live video of motivational speakers saying a
few key words on how to overcome obstacles in our life and in our own
minds. And all of this will be layered with photo's of symbolic images and
metaphorical actions.
48. Denial: For this I envision another
photo essay this time of a person that is a hoarder. It would be in black and
white and you would only see the back of the person standing in various rooms
in the only empty space left for them to stand amongst all of their
mountains of things. The song by Tracy Chapmin called, Mountains Of Things will
be written out and framed in the middle of the essay with the photos
surrounding it.
49. Liberation: I would like to be daring
enough to do a photo of myself alone or with other women, my age, standing,
sitting or laying naked on the edge of the grand canyon with their arms
outstretched toward the sun, or in various poses.
50. Death: a small hand made book with all the
holy cards I have from all my loved ones that have died. Beside each card would
be a photo of them and then a photo of what I have left from them, a ring, a
vase, a personal letter. Then beside that a hand written note from me to them
telling them how they have influenced my life.
