Time Arts Final Project

My Final Project has been narrowed down to a public-inclusion project, of sorts. Essentially, I will work over the period of one or two days, in my dorm, with whoever may volunteer to participate in the project. The project is: a "paper tile mosaic mural". I will cut up pieces of colorful paper, be it print paper, newspaper, magazine pages, construction paper , fliers, and the like. They will be cut into equal-sized squares and placed, en masse, into a box. I will put up large pieces of white paper onto a wall in the form of a mural canvas, and sit the box of "tiles" in front of it. I will ask friends and passersby from the dorm, whether they be students, staff, or visitors, to take a single "tile" from the box at random. They will have the choice of writing and/or drawing on the "tile" with sharpie marker, whether it is an individual piece, or one that somehow correlates with the scheme of the other "tiles" in color, shape, design, and so forth. They will then glue the "tile", in order from top left to bottom right, to the white paper mural. The "tiles" will form a large and colorful scheme of unique and scattered colors and thoughts. The project will be recorded either on film or video camera and documented accordingly. By the end of the project, I will be able to take the individual pieces of the mural down for reassembly elsewhere, in the original or alternative forms.

I am really quite excited for this project. My last public inclusion project did not go very well, at all, and it was a downer. This one, however, is of a different scheme and scale, and I believe it can attract the right kind of attention as a fun and really interesting activity. I hope to do some kind of advertising for it, such as fliers/posters, and attract people that way, as well as in the moment of the project itself. There will hopefully be loud music, food, and a lot of excellent mess and humor. If it does work out, it will be a hell of a great time, and a truly interesting outcome.

I'll try my best to make it work. Wish me luck!