Soar

"See you on the way back." -- 2001: A Space Odyssey

Begin again

"During the end of my senior year one day, I didn't go to school. Instead I drove out to Palm Springs alone and listened to a lot of old tapes I used to like but didn't much anymore, and I stopped at a McDonald's in Sunland for a Coke and then drove out to the desert and parked in front of the old house.... I didn't go out to Palm Springs that day to look around or see the house and I didn't go because I wanted to miss school or anything. I guess I went out there because I wanted to remember the way things were." - Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

Reveal

We can only see as far as our minds allow us. What lies beyond all the layers?

Mend

When we mend, what do we conceal? What can remain apparent, and conspicuous, from a mending process? How are we connected to the instruments with which we mend?

Lodge

What makes us feel comfortable? Safe? At home? Have we deluded ourselves into thinking we're protected when we're not?

Raise

To raise or to sink?

Wander/Return

She is caught between two homes. One is risky, one is safe - but neither gives her everything. The only answer is to travel back and forth.

Hold

A desperate attempt to hang on... maybe it's garbage, or maybe it's some amalgamation of myself. And I know that it won't actually hold my weight.

Long

Holding on to that which is drifting away, yet trying to grasp on to the last moment. The shadowy dream of the two is already beginning to emerge, the future loss presents itself.

Touch

Clay seemed to be the obvious choice. I moistened it with water and squeezed it endlessly, layering my imprints again and again. The forms began to take shape, depending on how large or small the pieces, and how they were arranged. Fingers and bodies revealed themselves.

Exercise 1 - Soften Your Paper

I made my paper mine. I stepped, squeezed, scratched, rubbed, folded, smoothed, smelled, and crumpled. It might still look the same as everyone else's, but its DNA is unique. I didn't know the possibilities were endless.