What…the figure? Why? What is it about the human form that does it for you? Attracts you – that wants to make more? Why the silhouette, trace, archive? A moment preservation of humanity, why these particular people? What is it about that person? Why that pose? Ephemeral, ethereal, ineffable? What are you trying to say about this person? Why wood panel? Why is it important to have the paint sit on top of the wood? Try burning it into the wood (retina) – memory, mind… Why are you stripping away the inner indicators – contour lines? Why such sharp edges? What parts of your process are absolutely necessary to your larger concept? You need another layer. Try using collage – or just the traces on the tracing paper. Insignificance, solitude, sublimity, oneness, aloneness, singularity? How do you plan on exhibiting these images? Why? All in a row, like flashes, a time line, a story, or individually with lots of space in between, or randomly? Take these words you have chosen and really think about why – what ones are significant – which ones are just fillers? What would happen if you used your students – coworkers – their kids? What do I then want to say about this particular community, these people – why? What if you chose people you didn’t know – how would the ‘contract’ then play out?
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