Ok so you all want specifics:

Nia you can choose between the following:


a) chose to compose a metaphorical self portrait of your self at seventeen...... no sounds, no video. only stills. don't try to hit everything just try an give a good concise snapshot. -1 photo.

The age doesn't have to be specific to 17 but I want to see how you perceive yourself at a distinct age or time in your life that most see as being "pivotal." I don't want to see a literal depiction rather something emotional or representative of who you were. I want to see an artistic meeting between who you are now and who you were and how that conversation may be rendered.

b) Depict in a series of three photos why you make art.

In short why do YOU make art? Not how or in what vein, but why. What drives you, what makes you be here on this chosen path that is so vital, so intrinsic to your being, that art has to be "it" for you? Not why you are in school, but why art? and not music, not computers, not business? I think this is a serious question for all of us to ask and I think it defines who we are and what we want out of all of this. So I ask this of you: why you make art?

John I give this one to you specificlly although I would love to see you all do something with this next one as it is directed but totally open to your own style and creativity:

a) Create one still photo using the following: your self, a slice of bacon, something blue, a piece of paper, and a sock. Outside of these items, you may choose any additional things to include at your discretion. It may be about nothing or something specific. Just make it great!

This is designed to stretch your creative juices, it's a simple exercise and it totally up to you as to how strong, playful, or strange it will become. Often times we need the ordinary everyday to be paired together to spark something new that might not ever have happened given your normal practices.
b) I would like to see you take a small prop and give it a name, give it a history, a future, in short a story and it will be the star. Pick a continent and start from there.

Lastly, Jennida I would very much like to see what you do with the bacon....also you could try:
b) I would like to see you do a piece that involves people interacting with your art. Take an element from one of your previous pieces that wasn't able to be fully realized and make that the focal point.
It would be nice to see you come back to something that didn't quite work the first time and concentrating on making it work outside of all of the other many considerations you seem to deal with.
Hassan