Turns out... I really didn't have time to think about constructing a propane forge. My mind was plagued by my independent study in puppetmaking with the Theater Dept., I could not conceive halting in order to make a studio I knew I wasn't going to use or have fun trying to pull together.
I was disappointed in myself for not being able to take the opportunity to make something really tangible for this class, but I came up with a quicker and more exciting idea to replace it.
Since highschool, I've kept this little book called The Guerilla Art Kit, a how-to book on crafts related to graffiti and such street art. I read through it a lot, but never really allowed myself to actually take the time to do the little crafts. With big sculpture projects and papers to write all the time, taking the time to do a stupid little craft can make me feel pretty guilty. But now the time seemed opportune...
...to make a guerilla art backpack!
for street art on the go!
I was talking to Katie about all my work anxiety and how I was going to change my mobile studio project even though it seemed late in the game, and it turned out she was struggling to keep afloat too. So, we decided to work together on this street art pack to keep the anxiety down and get more work done faster. We would make our art pack earth-based, like how our own independent sculpture is (katie works in taxidermy, I work in plant-like and animal forms), but more literal instead of representational.
Our street art backpack includes stencils with images taken from ancient cave art, "paints" made from vegetables and clays, clay and charcoal drawing chalks, and seed bombs (a seed pack to plant in corporate gardens).
Let the gardening anarchy begin!
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