from our discussion

All the things we talked about:

going to marion prairie on tues... drawing names and creating a word association bio for that person... maybe sending this and an item that is important to that person in a snail mail package (this would arrive at the completion of the project)... giving them the address to our blog so they can see what we have been doing and/or creating a blog with them... i think that was everything...

i totally forgot to post the words, that is, until now.

mine

trace, path, MOVEMENT, space wind existance time route lines curves trail reveal follow web slack tension string memory travel RECORD

hers

standing looking listening watching noticing feel sound touch MOVEMENT interaction through in within between across around writing RECORDING witness examine

-Z

walk

20 words about my project (Leann)

1. rhythm


2. texture


3. sound


4. temperature


5. hardscape


6. eyecatching


7. organic


8. shape


9. form


10. function


11. groundplane


12. meticulous


13. pattern


14. tabue


15. letters


16. nonexistant


17. apparent


18. reaction


19. emotion


20. memory

20 words about Barbara's project:

1. whispers


2. wind


3. snifflers


4. document


5. selective


6. rhythm


7. temperature


8. outside


9. levels


10. unnoticed


11. sense


12. awareness


13. place


14. collaboration


15. speed


16. softness


17. visual cues


18. constant


19. human


20. natural

String and Surroundings

1.stillness
2.balance
3.left
4.right
5.uneven
6.walking
7.pausing
8.within
9.parrallel
10.schedule
11.following
12.forward
13.sidewalk
14.sidewalk
15.heads
16.bodies
17.stopping
18.string
19.whimsical
20.tracking

Zac

Starting with our beginning point, he unwinds the string slwly. Leading himself down the stairs, and outside through the door. He winds the large ball of yarn around of signs, sidewalks, and across the small road. People don't seem to notice. It twists needlessly around patches of grass. It reminds me of blind exercises or a fairytale something that is : odd, useless, and nessesary. The string is secure enough to return the holder to whence he came.


1.unwinding
2.stairs
3.down
4.outside
5.string
6.around
7.leaves
8.across
9.sidewalks
10.pausing
11.standing
12.stopping
13.holding
14.beside
15.opens
16.clothes
17.tangles
18.paths
19.knots
20.up


Leusa

As people leave the building, they adjusted themselves to walking outside again. You can tell those who move on a schedule because immediately they lead themsleves , so go forward moving there bodies then their heads. Others immeadiately adjust on a diagonal, left or right, sometimes pausing. Most people don't look around, others look about carelessly as they orient themselves to the space. the string twists and floats on wind, wound around posts and across the road. It seems as though people don't notice it or they choose to ignore it. Either way it is strange. Whimsical, like a fairytale. I try to make myself perfectly still and adjust my body to itself. My left side is more delicate than my right side, however, both, feet refuse to stay pefrectly on the ground. I notice my body continues to move within.

Lists of words...

Howdy. Here are the lists from class the other day:

For Zuzana:
Detritus Garbage Excess Cast-off Left-over Un-needed Un-wanted
Disregard Litter Evidence Occupation Existance Claiming Collecting
Recycling Re-assignment Re-use Re-claiming Compilation Catalog

For Me:
Texture Feel Document Scrape Slide Smooth Rough Scratch Rub
Red Crouch Approach Engage Intrude Interact Experience Impression
Landscape Friction Cooperation

Word List

Words for Peter:
touch, hand, record, device, microphone, trees, metal, wood, cement, bushes, walk, future, emphasis, care, pause, 2nd generation, sound, textures, surface, interpret

Words for me:
mark, walk, trash, rocks, twigs, people, paper, plastic, lip gloss, pen cover, land, awareness, recycling, reusing, sound, wind,
document, discard, collect, attention

Word Lists from Couple Exercise Outdoors

List A-- Leann and I together:

scritchy, scratchy, tag-along, wind-chill, camera-fail, sounds, whoosh, conversations, recorder-fail, impotence, technopoop, brail, follow, wait, listen, sleuth-like, eaves-drop, rhythms, resign, tech-failure, companionably.




Leann makes textures with scritchy-scratchy sounds. We tag-along companionably together. We follow, wait. Leann scritches her scratchy rhythms. I photograph and record. Oops. Camera quits low battery. Photo failure. Resume recording whoosh of wind, truck motor. Walking into windchill, recording eaves-drop conversaton bits of cell phone users. Sleuth-like. Oops. Recorder stops. Technopoop! Techno-impotence. I resort to braille, feeling with my fingers all the things Leann is scraping. Heading back to Haskett Hall, along a trail of string. Resigned to tech-failure, I go back to my own five senses.


List B--Leann:

paper, pencil, drawings, rubbings, textures, rough, smooth, asphalt, plants, grates, grass, tree, brick-wall, composites, busily, capturing, landmarks, fervently, non-stop, scritch-scratch, kneeling

Kneeling with paper and pencil she makes relief rubbings of asphalt and grates. Rough scritch-scratch sounds. Plants--grass and leaves--sound smoother, resemble fossil drawings. Texture rules: tree bark and brick wall. She busily captures composites of textures. Scritch-scratch, scritch-scratch, non-stop.