Thursday, May 27, 2010

Tuesday's Class

I had never played either of the two creative exercise games before, however I really enjoyed both of them. they helped me to not worry if what I was producing was something that other people would consider "good" which has always been one of the biggest obstacles between ideas that I have and realizing them, I spend far too much time worried what other people will think. these exercises didnt allow for that, and because they were so quick actively fought against it. Though some of the poems or phrases we created didn't really make sense some of them seemed almost like they could have been written by one person and some of them were quite poetic; " Tears are a phone ringing in an empty room". Also the writings that the guest speaker read were fascinating, I had never heard anything like it, and I am also pretty sure I wouldnt be skilled enough to write anything like it either. I am also really looking forward to completing my collage that I started.  When I signed up for the class I didn't think we would get to create any art, but I am really excited we are getting to. I don't consider myself a good artist by any means but I am looking forward to seeing how my piece turns out. 

1 comment:

  1. Nice. The intention of a lot of these exercises, originally, was really just to be exercises--like musicians playing scales, or artists doing color studies. It's interesting that the Surrealists (and others) saw the value of exercises emphasizing the value of play, and worked at overcoming the conditioning to produce something good, polished, perfect all the time; also that they adopted from psychoanalysis the idea that you don't actually know everything about what's in your own mind, and can benefit from exploring it.

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