kaityli

So somehow I also managed to forget about blogging until now, but better late than never, I suppose.

For last week's project, the spectacle, I went through several changes. First, I wanted to do a film about confrontations and crowds, but then I couldn't really get the footage I wanted. Then I thought about ways to achieve a claustrophobic feel physically, and I was so ready for it that I bought 15 euros worth of fabric, but then I actually started and just wasn't feeling it anymore. In the end, what I really wanted to do was draw. I didn't want to work towards a critique, and that's pretty much what it felt like when I came up with my initial ideas. In the end, I did an accordion book of people senza architecture or context. I enjoyed working on it, and critique was helpful in the way that made me actually want to go back and work on it some more in order to improve it rather than fix it.

I'm excited for Regan's final project, but it might be a semi disaster because I'm totally terrible with sculpture, and I've never figured out the secrets to paper craft.

As for the ritual, I've thought about it, but not really in a completely serious way until yesterday. When the assignment was first introduced, I thought about sporting rituals, religious rituals, and how the two converge, because I care about soccer for cultural reasons mostly. I mean, I like the sport, but I don't care about Wash U's team, or my high school's team for more reasons than just that they were tools. I thought about building a shrine to someone (it's a secret). Maybe I still will. We'll see. But when I was having dinner with Mary last night, she was taking forever. I ate, paused, read a guidebook in French for like 15 minutes, continued eating, and still finished first. But that's not fair; I eat really quickly. I always win the race. So maybe I'll do something about that. I'm pretty indecisive and vague.