Riding on the Wings of Change... again... for realsies this time...

This past Thursday we had a group presentation in Design III-B. Ken invited Tom Griffiths to join in and offer some advice. Well, as I had mentioned some blogs entries to date... I was stuck... seriously smack-dab against a brick wall with what was the 'correct' direction to take my thesis. I think all along I knew what I had to do, but I was very very VERY reluctant to do it because of all the work I had already been putting into my vision. This vision, this initial plan was not as strong or as connected and universally understandable as I'd dreamed it would be. I explained, tiredly I might add, about my vision of the three elements of memory drawings, photographs of meaningful objects, and finally hand written Self definitions all coming together to create this artist version of Self set up in the gallery.

But, as I started to state before in an earlier entry, there was a HUGE problem with connectivity here. If you didn't understand my process, how the hell were you supposed to understand what you were even looking at by the time I set it all up in the gallery? Nope, too many loose ends between the memory drawing being hung on the walls and trying to connect them to the elements in the book, then there were even too many loose connections between the images and the writing in the book. Secondly, the images were not strong enough and robbed the hand written Self definitions of their glory.

So, this is it. I'm saying this now and sticking to it, with nothing but minor detail changes in the foreseeable future... I am basing my thesis on the Definition of Self. The strongest element of my work thus far had been the question I asked originally to be the 'third book' of my Finding Self series. This question, according to Tom, was 'brilliant and genius'. The initial reaction to the question is confusion and unsureness, but the responses I'm getting are beautifully profound and moving.

"Define your Self. Make this as ambiguous as possible. Try to avoid referencing gender, age, specific physical description, or title/social status, ethnicity, etc. Defining your soul, what is inside of you, not your outer shell."

This new, and hopefully and almost positively final direction I am headed in really stems back to my fascination of Iain Thomas' I Wrote This For You. It's the words that are so beautiful and emotional. Just these ambiguous statements that grab at the heart strings.

Fuck the frills, I'm getting down to the raw heart of what my goal is. There will be more to come once I put together my new gallery installation, and also deciding if I will be making a series of poster and/or a book (I may very well do both...)

But now I am opening this project up to anyone who'd like to be in!
Finding Self Directions
All I'd need from you is to download and print the directions out and actually physically write down your definition of Self, remember that anything is correct sparing the limitations I've listed in the directions. If you could somehow get the paper to me physically that would be best. If not, then you could always scan it and send it to me at chibiladykelly@gmail.com :)
Before April would be the best!! Thank you everyone :)

PS the examples below are only short samples, typeset and separated by yours truly... your definition may be as long or as short as you feel you need. Like I said, anything is correct when it comes to you defining your Self.

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