Performance Piece

For my performance art piece, I chose to place a blank sheet of paper beside my collage of brush strokes, and encourage my audience to join in my piece. My project deviated from my anticipation of what it would be. I was hoping that individuals would embrace the idea of making abstract marks and joining in continuing the project. However, what I have thus far is a combination of abstract marks and acrylic brush graffiti. I observed that my audience was also more interested in observing and participating than they were reading the statement. What I believe the project informed me is that individuals are interested in communicating things literally. Symbols and marks are, as of now, an even spread across the page. While not literal some of my marks are, in fact, representations of specific emotions, movements, and gestures themselves. Also, I observed some fear about violating a clean canvas. Then I encouraged mark making, as did Kate, and John, and people joined right in. When given unrestricted freedom it was interesting to see what came about, and how quickly individuals actually joined in. I had a filled page within an hour. As the project continues I am still hoping for more abstract marks. I may very well hide the graffiti marks and put up a half sheet of abstract lines and patches. Where the audience takes it will be interesting to see.