Combined class March 27, 2008

Today our class was combined with a 3-d class and we all had a different instructor, a visiting artist. The whole point of the workshop was to show that while one's first ideas are okay, they are not the best and sometimes one can get great things from their original ideas. An example of this is using definitions of words to make something small and shallow become a huge and deep concept or word which makes a great subject for a work of art. We also learned that the words of other people can be tools to help us do better as well.
An exercise we did was writing a fairy tale on one side of a piece of paper and the description of two pieces of paper on the other side. This paper was folded so that when we unfolded it, there were many mixed- up sentences. The only one I had that made ANY sense whatsoever was "However, she had used to be a crayon before midnight." I absolutely loved that. In groups we had to put our sentences together to create a story and here is my group's story:
"She walked through the sand-blasted forest to see her cinnamon-smelling grandm in the realm of the big left toenail. He traveled to a castle with pink panties from Victoria's secret to a house made out of pea soup that is of wooden sticks, warm and mushy. Visiting her grandma feels like a band-aid that tastes like candy and reminds me of sickly bodily fluids. However, she had used to be a crayon before midnight but her dog trapped them into toaster burners and then the prince fell in love with her. Eating asparagus, they lived happily ever after."
After this we each made a character out of our sentence. It had to be more symbolic than just drawing exactly what our sentence said. My character was a girl who was a geek/bookworm by day and when the clock struck midnight, she became a partying stripper. This was what she truly loved and wanted but she remained what she was by day to please everyone else. This paralells the idea of a girl being a crayon before midnight. Nothing ever says what she is after midnight but I'm assuming it's being something she'd rather be than a crayon so this follows the same sort of story.
Afterward everyone combined their characters to make a large picture/story. I really enjoyed class today, we learned but had so much fun while doing so!