The Month…
Here’s an art activity to perhaps keep you from falling into a void with your work, (Not that this ever happens!) or exploring the media and things that happen in our daily lives.
For each day of one month, make an art work about something that happened in the news, you could go for sensational headlines, or page three small stories of low interest but perhaps piercing value.
Perhaps some of the days you will just enlarge a section of the paper and create a simple collage, if ideas are not forthcoming… Perhaps the main works will be the same size all the way through. Perhaps the works become a wide “digital” panorama image on a wide website site where the viewer scrolls through the days.
Whatever the end product, the aim is to work with the inspiration of daily news (images, text, sound, video’s etc.) then explore how this connects each day (or not.) think about abstract ways you could present the information, or ways to use text in the works, and will you let the viewer know what day each one represents?
You could adapt the exercise to look at set chunks of history or a time based piece that explores the same time of day or night over an extended period.
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