hunt-ing (verb) – a search for something; usually related to the hunt for wild animals
gath-er-ing (verb) – to come together, assemble, or accumulate; to pick up from the ground; to collect scattered things; to draw together or towards oneself
Compile a series of images, texts, sounds, word lists, etc. that will inform your work this semester. The form/format you bring them to class in is up to, but it should be a pastiche of materials and sources that speak to you and represent entry points for further exploration throughout the semester.
Along with your hunting and gathering, briefly answer the following questions:
• What current event or news headline do you find yourself paying attention to lately?
• If you had to pick an ecological or environmental issue that concerns you, what would it be?
• What social or community-related issue engages you?
• Is there a medical or health-related issue that you find yourself thinking about?
• [are there other ideas, areas, disciplines, or fields you would like to explore?]
Consider the following:
Relationships between Self / Environment / Others (consider: actions, thoughts, habits, desires, beliefs, culture, perception, technology, objects, nature, physical structures, landscape, stuff, political systems, power, lines of communication, signs, symbols, assumptions, ritual, myth, history, time…) What engages you? What are you curious about? What fills you with wonder? What do you want to explore or know more about? What sources are you drawn to for material? (Digital media? Magazines? Photographs? Stream of consciousness writing? Politics or the nightly news? A specific place? Nature? Micro systems? Macro systems?) What is your point of view, i.e., what is your relationship to the things you are looking at/into? What might be some questions that guide your research and artmaking this semester? We are engaged in pure research—consider everything potential fodder for your creative work.
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