The next unit this year is the Rip It Out unit the purpose of the unit is to learn how to steal like a artist. Yes I said steal! Many people think of stealing as bad and something that is wrong, but in the art world everything is stolen. Its really an artists job to steal. Not only is it their job to steal their job is to cover it up, or make it new. If you were to steal a car your not going to drive it up and down the road in front of the house you stole it from. Your going to give a new paint color, some new wheels, and some new bumper stickers then drive it up and down the street. Inside you know its theirs but on the outside its actually yours because of what inspired you to make out of it.
The first activity we did for the unit was black out poems. The objective was to take somebody else's words but make them completely our own. My poem was called faces named after the book I ripped the page from. Here is the poem.
Faces
By, Abbey Houston
I am obsessed with faces
People fascinate me
infinit expression and possibilities
I realize a soul defines an individual's uniqueness
Part of what remains intriguing is the details
an accumulation of detail
It was thrilling seeing someone eles
Okay I know it may not make complete since but the activity helped the concept of the unit make complete since. I may not have wrote the words on the page but when I blacked out everything it made the remaining words mine because I chose them. The poem is completely mine and to me that make the poem completely fine.
The first activity we did for the unit was black out poems. The objective was to take somebody else's words but make them completely our own. My poem was called faces named after the book I ripped the page from. Here is the poem.
Faces
By, Abbey Houston
I am obsessed with faces
People fascinate me
infinit expression and possibilities
I realize a soul defines an individual's uniqueness
Part of what remains intriguing is the details
an accumulation of detail
It was thrilling seeing someone eles
Okay I know it may not make complete since but the activity helped the concept of the unit make complete since. I may not have wrote the words on the page but when I blacked out everything it made the remaining words mine because I chose them. The poem is completely mine and to me that make the poem completely fine.