Review of Dead Moths

• Why is she in a box?
• I don’t understand how this relates
• Is this a picture of the five senses?
• Why were they sitting on a vending machine?
• This feels like an advertisement

Describe in detail what you see in each piece of documentation. What do you see? What is happening? Describe the location, the time of day, the light, the colors, the textures, the actions, the perspective, etc. Focus just on visual information:

• Inside location, not looking at the camera
• Painting? Where is it?
• Sketch/drawing documentation
• writing documentation
• photoshop, not looking at the camera

As you spend more time with the work, what is the most interesting aspect of it? Is it the same as the first thing that you noticed, or does your interest change over time?

• difficult to understand the story, intention, theme
• using the space in a different way
• lots of questions about the work, becomes more interesting over time

As you spend more time with the work do you lose interest? Does it become more engaging? Why?

• Work becomes more confusing and more engaging over time
• It becomes more engaging because more and more questions are brought up the more you think about the work

What is the experience of viewing each piece? Does it make you feel anything? Does it make you think anything? Is it boring? Is it confusing? What specifically accounts for this experience?

• Very confusing
• If you look for meaning it becomes more engaging. If you don’t look for anything you might lose interest over time or the work might become boring.

Give a specific piece of advice for each bit of documentation. If the group was to do this over again what suggestions would you give to make the documentation more engaging?

• If the box was shifted over it was make it more interesting (composition)
• The painting needs location, it has no place, it needs context
• it doesn’t convey a connection, it relies on the other pictures and documentation to be meaningful
• It was very procedural, a stream of consciousness might provide more interesting information
• It looks like an add for soda, wish it had bystanders, again more context (maybe had reactions of people walking by?? ***Incorporation performance

Based on all of your answers so far, what story is this documentation telling? What do you take away from viewing it?

• Performance could be a story
• Interactions with people in a space? (populated area)
• Using the space
• Life in Powell?
• It’s a way of experimenting with objects (drawing from previous Foundations projects)