A Summer of Art

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Assignment: Caption Contest

Provided By: David Rathman

Title: These Boots will Walk again

By: Maxine

1. Look at Rathman’s Painting.

2. Add Test, preferably handwritten, on top of the image. Use your own words, or pull from a book, movie, meme, song or saying.

3. If you’re so inclined take a photo or scan what you’ve added and share it. You can also cut out the previous page and present it in any way you like. 

 When I was doing these along with the assignments these write up’s I was making were helpful. It was good for me to think about why I did art. I have been doing assignments with friends the last few weeks but not doing this part. So here’s a first attempt at thinking about what I am making again. 

This assignment has stood out to me since I first flipped through the book. I have been thinking about words trending along these lines. But then I was feeling like the felt too natural of a fit. That's the thing with a Caption, what I think is the natural fit is not what the next person thinks is the natural fit. These are a few lines from “These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" sung by Nancy Sinatra. Though to me it was more commonly sung by my Mom... 

This image makes me think about my running shoes that are locked up in the staff room of the retail store i worked at before Isolation, it makes me wonder if those shoes that are made for walking around that store will walk again. I don’t know if I will go back. 

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I am returning to this old place. An old comfortable place where Art was made during one very happy summer.

I return because of a book. A book by the same creator of the original inspiration of this art. I return because two specific ideas that came from this time are still now years later playing through my head. I return now because more than anything now is a time for Art. For creating things.

Looking at these old works I like how I presented the work. How I thought about the projects. I make things these days but the thought I was putting into the work when doing the Art Assignment prompts was a lot more than what I do these days.

So here I am. End of April 2020. A different person than the one who started this work but present and ready to Participate once again.

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Assignment 38: Fake Flyer

Assignment 38: Fake Flyer

Provided By: Nathaniel Russell

Title: The Old Ones are Coming

By: Maxine

1. Make a flyer that gives advice, shares something about your life, or promotes an imagined event 2. Put it out in to the world 3. Upload a printable copy using #theartassignment. Bonus points for uploading a photo of the flyer posted in the real world.

Life is very much like a game of Arkham Horror, except without a lot of the reading ancient texts that you shouldn’t and getting stabbed with needles full of blue fluid by orderlies at the hospital. 

It’s like a game of Arkham Horror because you go through life heading in the best direction you can think of at the time but often not doing all the things you intend to do because of events out of your control send you in a direction you didn’t intend.

Also sometimes the weather is all Sickly out.

I used to be so good at doing these art assignments... They used to be a very simple but amassing part of my life. But My Boy got sick, we moved... I got Devoured... the events in my life became overwhelming.

The weather was very Sickly in my neighborhood, with a probability of Sadness at 35%

But sometimes you get things you want to do done. This is a thing. I did it. At some point in time I will do another and it will be fun. The fact that the Art Assignment is there for me, not intending itself to make me feel sad at all I HAVEN’T done yet, but all the ideas it has for me waiting is important.

Thank You

I know that doing Art makes me better when I am in surrounded by sadness. Lost in the embrace of an Old One. The Art Assignment is a perfect place for me to start because I can just follow the suggestions, and I will have DONE something. 

There is a constant war between this knowledge of how to help myself get better and my lack of energy to DO anything. Add in a feeling of “its been too long to do them again” and you are down right lost. 

But that’s not right. Here today, with a mind that is mine not one lost to the madness that the Old Ones create I know this to be true. 

I love the world of Arkham Horror. I love the idea of Monsters, I just don’t like being scared. The world of Arkham is so ridiculous that watching it from the outside is not scary. It’s just a series of pour decisions followed by the world being Devoured.  

Which I feel like can also describe depression. I bet someone looking at me last semester would be like “Of course you are going to do poorly at school... You went to class, barley payed attention, then went home to stare at Netflix.” This being a series of pour decisions followed by me being Devoured.... Where as I feel like posting “I went to class today!!” proudly on Facebook as a big accomplishment of the week. 

Today I am good. Friday when I did this Assignment I was good. Tomorrow is tomorrow and we will see how I am at that moment.

But Today I am good.

You will probably still be able to find me at The Silver Twilight Lodge. Where we do rituals to the Old Ones, so that when they Awake from the depths of Rylath they will look kindly on those who know and respect there power. And every moment you are there you are trying your best to not look like the best choice for the daily Sacrifice. 

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Assignment 30: Boundaries

Assignment 30: Boundaries

Provided By: Zarouhie Abdalian

Title: I got lost somewhere between there and here...

By: Maxine

1. Find two spaces that share a boundary 2. Do something to highlight or alter the relationship between those two spaces 3. Document it in some way and upload using #theartassignment

     I moved.

     It’s been a busy summer in all ways other than The Art Assignment. I started a company where I am attempting to turn my passion for making my own clothing into an opportunity to make clothing for others (Tastes Like Brains). This has meant I have been doing a lot of art that is not Art Assignment Art this summer. 

     There has been a lot of changes in my boundaries lately. This has been my idea from the moment when this assignment was first posted in July. At that point I knew I was moving (I had been looking at apartments for 2 months, and given notice on the first) just not where too. 

     A home is an important boundary between us and the world. Its the point that separates everything. It separates private from public. The Work from the leisure. The Pants time from the No Pants time... Once you get into a home there are even more boundaries... places where guests go, places where they don’t. 

     When you are moving those boundaries all get broken apart and put into a box. Some of the things at one end don’t make it to the other. Some new stuff appears at the other end. In the process you get all sorts of lost because you don’t really feel at home anywhere... In the end you have moved. You have most of your stuff, likely some new stuff and for once your cupboards are sorted. 

(a larger image of the gif can be found here)

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Still Alive...

My hold on Art as Experience just arrived at the Library! It was a long hold list... I wonder if any of its other readers follow the art assignment?  I have been working on different things lately. Including an Animation response to the Collaborate with Son Lux assignment (as well as other things like starting my own clothing company and finding a new apartment).  Hopefully I will find some art assignment time soon!

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Assembly Line Online

Many thanks to the artists who drew #AssemblyLineMandalas with me (listed from left to right, top to bottom):

Lauren

Betty (ARTiculations)

Jacklyn (SciJoy) 

Ashley (AshleynessVlogs)

Mary Srinivas

San

Xenolilly

Maxine McCurdy

Peter (Go Verb a Noun)

Meg

Find these fine folks on tumblr too: articulationsvlog scijoy ashleyness srinivamb xenolilly goverbanoun 

  In the prompt, Bob Snead describes when he developed an assembly line of friends/colleagues to make a set of identical pieces of art for a larger endeavor. Mandalas were a good fit for such an assembly line because they are easy to systematize, but as you can see here, replicated mandalas have a way of being very much the same and yet simultaneously different. I appreciate how each one turned out as unique as the artist who drew it. And what a treat to get so many art assignment fans together in the same (virtual) space at the same time! This hangout had the perfect balance of learning, laughter, and creative expression. Did someone say “Art as Experience”?

And ICYMI, click here to watch the video of us drawing these together.

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Crit # 148: megmotherwort, articulationsvlog, scijoy, ashleyness, srinivamb, xenolilly,  goverbanoun, Lauren, Maxine, and San’s Assembly Line

Whew, that is the longest attribution I’ve ever done for my critiques. I think this was such a cool way of doing the assembly line (and considered joining in before I realized I was busy at the time of the event). I think it’s interesting to look at the way individual choices affected the final products despite each artist receiving the same instructions (and using very similar media to produce it). Meg describes it as “very much the same and yet simultaneously different” and I think that’s an apt description.

 Choices about space between the circles, choices about the thickness of your media, choices about how precise you want to be when forming the pattern of each circle – all these are tiny, tiny choices but can make such a huge difference! Take the two at the top left, for example. The colors used are almost identical, but the expansive of the strokes in the one on the right opens up the mandala, which draws my eye away from the center. The one in the uppermost left corner, in contrast, has tight, closely spaced circles which draw me inward, towards the center. They both engage the viewer, but in such different ways.

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Yay!! I had so much fun doing this!! (maxine)

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Assignment 21: Movement Telephone

Assignment 21: Movement Telephone

Provided By: Ryan McNamara

Title: And so the message Continues and Changes... Continues and Changes... Changes

By: Maxine

Inspiration video by Meg Gilbert

(Her inspiration can be found Here, which can then be traced back to Here... but don't peek if your going to continue this chain!!)

Movement Telephone Instructions: 1. Find a clip of movement on the internet. Watch it once. 2. Film yourself replicating that movement. 3. Watch your video and then film yourself replicating your movement in that video. 4. Repeat step 3. 5. Upload your 3 clips  and a link to your inspiration video.

     This was strange... it felt strange after doing it. But it felt much more interesting editing it (there was about two weeks of mid terms between the two events). I am not too good at the Vlog thing yet, I am much better putting thoughts down here than in the video... also I edit at school so I can't really add more video now that I am editing things... :S

     I like how when you go through the series from the original cartoon, to the one by +1Book1Review, through to the one by Meg Gilbert then to mine the movements start to wash out, and become a lot more like a dance than they were originally.  +1Book1Review  talks about how she felt her movements town down, I felt that a lot when I first looked at mine... in my first video and in Meg's there is a fall bit at the start that completely disappeared from my second two trials... also meg ends her third video in a very stationary, dance like way that wasn't apart of her original but I recreated making things continue and change... 

     I like this Telephone chain, I like how its developing defined cartoon movements into something more fluid. If anyone wants to continue it feel free (also let me know!!). Telephone is much more fun when you have lots of people to play with!!

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Assignment # 15 - Photo a Friend

Assignment 15: Photo a Friend

Provided By Tanja Hollander

Title: Old Friends... and there girlfriends Dogs

By: Maxine

Photo a Friend Instructions: 1. Find a friend (define friend however you want) 2. Take a formal photographic portrait of them 3. Upload 4. Extra credit: Also upload a pic of a post-it saying what a real friend is and then send it to Tanja.

     Here we have two photo's taken of my two oldest friends, the only people I have contact with from high school. Both were friends I had who went to a different school than me. They were from an important part of my life when I realised you don't have to pick from the limited supply of people who just happen to live near you to be your friends. Its ok if your friends live 30 min (or more) away... also its ok if they are Guys.  (Which was a good thing to learn because now they are both 2.5 hours from me...)

     Friends have always been hard for me. I don't make them easily. I am this strange mixture of introvert / extrovert. I don't think I really fit well in iver category... around extroverts I seem introverted around introverts I am extroverted... I do feel much more comfortable in small groups though. I also have found that I am a lot less intimidated by guys than girls... it has often felt to me that girls expect me to be different than I am. As often as not they are ok with me once they start to see me, but I feel that it can take some girls longer to see me as apposed to what they expect to see.

   Andrew and Bella the dog are in the first photo. I stayed at Andrews house for the weekend which was fun. Got to get to know his girlfriend a lot better and discovered that I really wish I had know her in high school, would have made things a lot more fun (as much fun as I had with "the guys"... it would have been nice). The two puppies Bella and Charlie are hers and very cute.  (Side note: The photos of pocket watches above Andrews head were taken by him... In my head Photography represents Andrew... he dose lots of other stuff... but he seemed so happy to me when he was able to do that at collage).

    Ryan and Miley are the second photo. Miley is also Ryan's girlfriends dog, who was at work when we came over to play car games and take a photo so I didn't get the chance to hang out with her any more than the limited time we had at a con last year.

    I intended to bring post it notes but forgot them... so me and Andrew wrote on que-cards...

    Also here's a video from the creation... because I have a video camera now and like the idea of Creation videos (even if am not sure anymore that I like editing)!

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Assignment #18 - Expanded Moment

Assignment 18: Expanded Moment

Provided By: Jan Tichy

Title: Every Spin's a Winner

By: The Head Pirate and Maxine

EXPANDED MOMENT INSTRUCTIONS: 1) Find a place with the potential for visual movement 2) Place your video camera on or attach it to a stable object 3) Record at least 2 minutes without moving the camera (and no sound!)

     Here is two Expanded Moment assignments. The First above was done by me and My Husband, The second below was mine, though he did name it.      I wanted to do my expanded moment assignment when we were on vacation on a Curse ship. The first attempt above was the first one Head Pirate has been apart of, I filmed it but he told me what I was to go film.  It's short because I got yelled at by an employee about filing in the Casino...     Head Pirate loves the Casino. He loves the lights and the sounds. If you don't have your slot machine turned up to the MAXIMUM volume you are doing it wrong (apparently). He thought the idea of a casino without sound is just wrong... which makes his Image interesting.       The idea here is about the movement of the slot machine almost more than the people... the people in the Casino don't move a lot. The casino on the ship isn't open the three days that the ship is in port... but I am sure that there was one lady who was sitting at the same machine every time I pass that it was open! 

Title: Big Dreams; Small Success

By: Maxine

     It's hard to "make it" as a performer. I am no one to judge someone who has found a way to monitise their form of art. But the thing is, I don't really think this was what she dreamt of when she was learning music.       A Cruse ship is full of extremely talented performers. Sadly as often as not they are ignored by those they are preforming for...  

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Assignment 15: Photo a Friend

Assignment 15: Photo a Friend

Provided By: Tanja Hollander 

By: Flow

1. Find a friend (define friend however you want)

2. Take a formal photographic portrait of them

3. Uplode

5. Extra credit: Also upload a pic of a post-it saying what a real friend

Why take this photo?

Well because they are my friends. But not only that. It’s because they are what I think is the true embodiment of friends to me. I am not saying that I don’t have many amazing friends, or that they are better friends than any of my wonderful and amazing friends I have. But that they are what I see as the perfect definition of a friend.

Let me explain, this two, who are known affectionately as Emprise (Nee) and Windrunner. They live in Ottawa, Ontario. I live in Toronto, Ontario. I traveled all that way by train just to see them for the weekend. We hung out played games, and took this photos. So even thought they live so far away, we have been able to retain are friendship at an almost constant level. It has never wavered. Not once.

Now this is not to say everything is perfect. We all have are time of not being the best friend to one another or forgetting something that was really important to the other. Or just needing space from a person once in a while. But it does not matter what all three of us have gone through we have always remained friends.

A friend to me is someone who I can see a few times and then not see for a year. And then see them again and we click back together like no time has even past. This is what Windrunner and Emprise mean to me.

Now by now you must be wondering why is the photo of a cat and a wolf? Well because that is who they are. And who I see them as. Of course there are human, but everyone has a bit of animal in them. And my friends just like to show it off in a more creative way. Another great reason they are my friends. They are not afraid to show off their wild side!

Post it note:

“What a real friend is to me. A friend is someone who stays with you and is always there for you even if you have not seen or talk to then in a long time.”

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Assignment 11: Under The Influence

Assignment 11: Under The Influence 

Title: The Frog's Curse: A retelling of the Frog Price

Provided by:  Peggy and Garry Noland

By: Maxine  

Episode 11 instructions 

1. Choose an artist or a maker.

2. Get to know their work and practice. 

3. Make something in that style. 

     So to be honest I think this is an imitation of more than one type of art... it started out as an imitation of the STORY stile of Jon Scieszka. He is the Author of "The Stinky Cheese Man, and Other Fairly Stupid Tales" and "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs". I am mostly imitating the three little pigs story here, by using the Frog Prince story as my base. and then showing the story from the frog's perspective (also I decided that it wasn't a prince cursed into a frog but a frog cursed into a prince...) The reason I say this is more than one imitation is because REALLY Jon Scieszka is imitating the Brothers Grimm, or at least borrowing from them.

     I also decided to present it in a comic book style instead of a children's story book style... I thought about using that for a long while but felt that I wanted to show things in a different way than he was.  I wanted to try to show movement, and the frogs frustration... I hope it worked... And so that means that I am intimidating all the different people who have developed the comic book style of composition. 

     The art itself is 100% pure me. That is my style... it took me a long time to realize it (I don't mean with this peace... just in general) but it's the way art I really put time and care into look. Its a mixture of hand drawing the work on paper, then scanning it, re drawing all the lines on the computer and then continuing to colour it.  That stile has been an process over the years, starting with an imitation of Looney Tunes when I was ten. 

And so here's the PDF... because it looks better like that and its 14 pages so that's a lot of photos... 

The Frog's Curse

P.S Just want to note that I was SOOOOOO close to finishing this in November but then as I was coloring the cover page my Desktop (with Photoshop) died on me... so Hooray for fully finishing and posting this!! 

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Assignment 17: The One That Got Away

This assignment was a little different, we have been asked to all call and leave messages on an answering machine about the one that got away.

I don't really want to say much about it. Mostly say that I participated. I will say that it was to a friend. That's not to say I didn't love her in a unique way. But she was a friend, and the friendship faded apart.  

The assignment video can be found here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25oeWopdnBk

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Assignment 4: Never Seen, Never Will by Maxine

Assignment 4: Never Seen, Never Will

Title: A Day like no Other

Provided by:  David Brooks

By: Maxine  (With help from Flow to take the photos)

Episode 4 instructions 

1. Think of something that exists that you've never seen, and probably never will

2. Articulate it (any medium will do)

3. Upload it using #theartassignment

     I am presenting this a little different than normal because this project has become a little more than any of the others so far to me. When I started thinking about how I wanted to present this project it became clear to me fairly early that I wanted to present whatever I had never seen through fabric and sewing. Different ideas came to me but fairly early I had a solid idea. 

     I liked the idea... but I also didn't like the idea. It felt sad. It felt like I was being very pessimistic about the direction our world will take, that the statement I am making, by saying I have Never Seen, and Never Will See this was less hopeful than I normally am and out of character for myself. 

     Then I thought about it a bit more and talked to some people about the idea and I feel that even if its sad, and pessimistic doesn't mean it's not worth saying. Maybe saying this will help us as a society work towards a world where its not true. Where I do see that what I think I won't see.  

     I so with that said I will just present to you the finished work today. No thoughts or reflections about the making of this project yet. For now I just want you too see what I present to you here. As well add one small note. 

     The dress is the one I made for my wedding last year on august 15, the jewelry and shall are also apart of what I wore that day. The pants are made from the same cloth as the dress. The lining of the vest has the lining from the dress. 

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Assignment 13: Sorted Books by Maxine

Assignment 13: Sorted Books

Title: Mostly Math Books.... 

Provided by: Nina Katchadourian

1. Choose a person you know or would like to know better 2. Take a look at/through their library 3. Make 3 stacks of books to develop a portrait of the person 4. Upload it to your social media platform of choice using #theartassignment

     The hardest part of this project for me (and I think a lot of others from looking at the submission so far) is finding a person other than myself who has books I can play around with... there are a lot of books in my house... but 85% of them belonged the the Maxine who is in high school (I have no decided that it would be interesting to do this about her.... because she is not me... maybe a different night when I am avoiding homework...).  The other 14% are the ones I have bought since 2004, and the tiny 1% (if even... I found 12 books) belong to my husband...

     Stefan has always lived very mobile, as such he doesn't have a lot of STUFF. Especially heavy things like books... but here is three books stacks made from the small, simple selection. 

     There we have it, three short comments on my husband... hope it helps you understand him a little :S

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Personal Project 2 - 30 Days of Photos

Chalange Provided by living-photographs.tumblr.com/ 

Personal Project 2:  30 Days of Photos

By: Maxine

Instructions

1: Every day starting sept 1 take a photo based on the

photo prompt provided by living-photographs.tumblr.com/ 

2: Add Photo To this Page

3: Share with the Facebook Group

4. Enjoy and add Positive Criticism to all the photos on the group

5. Grow my Photography skills! 

     So this was an idea posted on the Nerdfighters facebook group, the idea the split off into its own group. We decided to start on Sept 1, just to give a chance for people who wanted to join to find the group (though really you can start day 1 at any point... its like the 30 day fitness challenges that facebook loves so much! so if you are just seeing this but want to join feel free).

     Going to add each photo to this post... 

Day 1 - Triangles 

Not the best of starts... :S But it was HOT and lazy...

Day 2 - Through Something 

    It was raining (a lot) as I walked home from work, I was almost home when I saw the way the rain was moving through these trees looked cool... It was kinda fast because i didn't want to get my phone too wet... but its more interesting than day 1... :P

Day 3 - Something you love about yourself 

     This is kinda a two part photo (mostly because I didn't like the photo that showed the whole room at once). I want to show the two parts of me and the way they are reflected by the two work stations I have in my office... I am both an Engineer and an Artist at the same time. The mixture of the two sides of me is what I love, I love math but I love the visual art world just as much... and I love that I can find ways to be apart of both and keep that balance in my life. 

Day 4 - Light

     Part of me feels like I want to complain about my cammer... the other is telling me not to worry about it... so not worrying.

Day 5 - Texture 

     Not worrying doesn't mean I shouldn't stop taking night photos... night photos do not work without a flash.   

Day 6 - Lines

     I know kinda boring... but I do like the way hallways / buildings are so very linear... 

Day 7 - Vintage

     Calling Incomplete on this one... I am currently unsure what to photo for this... I don't have much that is older than 10 years...  

Day 8 - Books 

     Two projects in one on this one. Art Assignment 13 done!

Day 9 - A Hobby

     Well that got a little trippy... :D

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Assignment 12: Imprint, By Maxine

Assignment 12: Imprint

Title: Ready For School

Provided by: Sopheap Pich

By: Maxine

  Episode 12 instructions 

1. Choose and object you find interesting

2. Cut it, making a flat surface

3. Dip the cut surface in paint

4. Press it on to a piece of paper repeatedly to make an imprint

5. Upload to you social media platform of choice using #theartassignment

     There are 5 days left to this summer... now that doesn't mean that I am going to suddenly stop doing the Art Assignments, but it does mean that the summer is almost done... and that school is on my mind a lot right now.

     So I wanted to do one last assignment before class starts next week... and I thought about inprint, and using school supplies to make prints... and well... now those prints look (kinda) like my schedule... :D

     I started off a lot like the walk on it assignment, fining a peace of card from my recycling... and then painting it a solid light colour. 

      From there is was time to gather a bunch of stuff that could be cut apart... In the end I found more stuff than I used... its hard to see but my favorite was the little peaces of glue stick...

Also the pencil crayon split really neat...

The top half was sawed apart... then it split...

I am happy to say no fingers were harmed in the halving process! 

     The painting was messy but fun. I used the paint bottle to make time slots....

Since all the pain I am using is OLD, like really old it gets a little gloppy at times...

      There was no way that the pad of post-it-notes was going to get cut in half... instead I cut it into a fan like brush... that worked pretty well to be honest... and it felt like what Sopheap Pich was going for when he used the materials at hand to make whatever he could with them.

     The little blue lines were used to highlight the start of class, since I have classes back to back... That shape was from a bunch of staples stuck together... The pencil crayon made a border... 

     I was a little sad to cut the eraser in half... and it got a little dangerous because its so small... but it made a nice little stamp. The Yellow is supposed to be tea time... because 3:00 pm is Tea time...

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Air Guitar by Dave Hickey

  Air Guitar

by Dave Hickey

(Art Assignment Book Club 1)

10 Words: A challenging read forcing one to think more about art. 

       This book is a collection of essays written by Dave Hickey.  I am not completely finished this book yet, nor do I feel I have really understood what I have read on this first read through, but I would like to put a few thoughts down before Sarah talks about it. I have read 13 of the 24 essays and can only really say I understand two of them (Dealing and Magazine Writer). Yet just because I am finding the content challenging to understand doesn't mean I am not enjoying the challenge, the ideas that are there feel important, they are just not ones I feel have really had to think about before.

     One of the essays I understood was Dealing. I found the ideas it brought up interesting, and important. I  read it last week when I was working on my "Never Seen, Never Will Peace" (it's so close to done... so close). I was thinking about his words, and the way he talks about the value of art and how its value isn't really something that can be measured with money. This idea ran along my head because I am currently feeling really happy with my Never Seen, Never will project. It is the first time I feel that something I have created is "art" vs a craft, or a project... I feel that there is a statement I am making with it and it is an important statement with value.  I have had friends who are artest, and always wondered how one goes about setting a value for the art... In my mind its a mixture of how much you spend on the tools you used to make it (paint is expensive) and how much you value your time... (am I making minimum wage selling this to you?) I have read articles written by web comic artists or just artest online who do commissions, where they are forced by the community they are hired by to justify those costs... people think that the argument "if this was cheaper I could buy it" is a reason for someone to work less than minimum wage... The value of the art is always such a hard thing to set in a way that everyone can be happy about. I think his essay does a really good job of explaining the process and the problems.

     I am about to go camping and I will continue to do my best to understand a few more of the essays while in between the canoeing and walking... I have always felt that its important to write about the books I read because it forces me to think about what i have read more. In the same way it is important to think about art, and the different ways it has built and affects our world. This book is not simple but thats ok. It is going to take more than one read through for me to get what Dave Hickey wants me to think about, but I feel that I have started and am definitely willing to keep trying.