Focusing

We looked at the installation, sculpture and performance art by many artists today, especially those who used accumulated effort and repeated form. We re-examined our themes, deciding to move away from the idea of creating a fort and towards something that physically included a representation of the entire student body. We also revisited our site and worked to catalog more formal qualities before we jumped to solutions. Many of us wanted to step into the de-construction site of the old building and gather materials from the rubble.

We listed materials that we might gather and use: soda cans, lost and found objects, old clothes, magazines, hall passes, books, paper, disposable water bottles, leaves, envelopes, pencils, milk cartons, straws, spoons, old head phones, chairs, skittles, jolly rancher wrappers, toilet paper rolls, rulers, old furniture, shredded paper, cloth, and lunch trays.

Ways we thought to represent the student body: paper pockets that could have objects added or taken away, bottles filled with something, a web with objects embedded, color, scrunched up balls of paper, furniture, graffiti, many chairs. We also tried to circumvent the pressure to have an "art idea" by simply expressing our wishes of ways we might like to transform the space: create a dorm room, a vending machine, lots of chairs, cover everything with hall passes, fill the space with color, a web.

Themes we considered: the maturation process, boredom, feeling trapped, feeling pressure, need to relax, and fear of the unknown.