I am struggling to locate the nature of this work in an urban setting. It is drastically differant from the project I was able to lead in Durango and Hesperus, Colorado. The earth is coated thickly with pollution everywhere. The air feels uninspiring. I will have to work indoors today. I feel turbulent about all this.
The following are photographs and comments on the Class 1 research:
Deconstructing, Isolating, and developing an acute awareness for two Individual Viewpoints:
EMOTION - perceptual ability to experience states of being
observing and participating with the natural state of being
automatic writing
blindfolded
lead through a body scan- yoga nidra
charcoal drawing of the body
titled by a gem from writing
reflection
lead through a body scan- yoga nidra
charcoal drawing of the body
titled by a gem from writing
reflection
TIME - perceptual ability to experience duration and systems created to regulate duration
observing and participating with duration
burying parts of the body
meditating on duration
filling the void where the body was with plaster
letting the plaster exist with the dirt for an extended duration (7 days)
All Photos by Tom Murray
I learned a GREAT deal from this first workshop. I realized that one of the most important aspects of this process is the exploration of the unknown and taking risk. In this first class I was leading exercises and having participants work with sculptural material in ways I had already done during a previous project.
Although those participating may have gotten something out of the class, I was not excited by it. It was dull for me because I was just repeating and reproducing something I had already discovered, I had expectations for it now.
Therefore, the work needs to be constantly evolving and persistently pushing out of the reified world into the unknown. The work and I are not engaged with one another if there is no risk. I am so captivated with this discovery. There will never be a class or workshop that was like the last. It will always be different. Stemming from the body by attuning the awareness to isolated Viewpoints will remain the core, but it now has the freedom to jump farther and farther off the cliff.
I am excited to come back to the next class.
filling the void where the body was with plaster
letting the plaster exist with the dirt for an extended duration (7 days)
All Photos by Tom Murray
I learned a GREAT deal from this first workshop. I realized that one of the most important aspects of this process is the exploration of the unknown and taking risk. In this first class I was leading exercises and having participants work with sculptural material in ways I had already done during a previous project.
Although those participating may have gotten something out of the class, I was not excited by it. It was dull for me because I was just repeating and reproducing something I had already discovered, I had expectations for it now.
Therefore, the work needs to be constantly evolving and persistently pushing out of the reified world into the unknown. The work and I are not engaged with one another if there is no risk. I am so captivated with this discovery. There will never be a class or workshop that was like the last. It will always be different. Stemming from the body by attuning the awareness to isolated Viewpoints will remain the core, but it now has the freedom to jump farther and farther off the cliff.
I am excited to come back to the next class.
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