Creepy Raffle

The items on my inventory list were printed out and turned into raffle tickets. Six pairs were picked:

Shelves/ shells

tissue paper/ smooth stones

dremel tool/ hammers

drill press/ chainsaw

fussball table/ miniature cutting blades

razor blades/ trash bin

I didn’t like these 6, so I picked another 6.

fussball table/ radial arm saw.... Yes, even though I shuffled them, I got the fussball 

table again, and another means of cutting or splitting. I got several things that evoke splitting or cutting such as chain saw, razor blades. Tissue paper and smooth stones was nice, but too easy.

re-shuffle.... fussball table again (!)/ awls

nails / trash

dremel / driftwood

thumb tacks / cement

angle lamp /mylar sheet

I felt guilty about picking another 6, and instead of stopping right there, I picked another 6. I really wanted certain things to get picked!

Metal polish /plaster of paris

water colors /drop cloth

lead sheet / oil paint

scissors / light sensitive chemicals

T squares / gold leaf

pencils / scotch tape

Now, feeling nervous about obtaining the fussballl table 3 times (twice picked by me, once by my husband) and having seen nasty creepy movie previews on TV I felt that the fussball table was demanding to be included in the experiment. So, which pair could be used to illustrate a convulsive fusion?

fussball table/ miniature cutting blades

fussball table / awls

fussball table / radial arm saw

fussball table/ miniature cutting blades was picked first, and features one of two ways of  cleaving things. Therefore, I chose to work with it.

1. Take miniature cutting blades and use them with my Dremel tool to cut the legs or heads off the plastic players. Acquire some blood (fake?) and have a massacre/riot of plastic fussball players as two humans try to keep them playing. Film them ( the plastic people) disintegrating, but fused in their determination to play soccer.

1. Use blades to sculpt new, magical, bizarre figures to play the game, fused from other body parts. If they could have had a convulsion, they would.

1. Re-tool the entire table assembly, cut into little pieces and reassemble. Balance the pieces so that if kicked, a cascade of bits would occur. Kick it. Film the collapse and then reverse the film to see a convulsive fusion occur.

1. Use blades to take the table apart and create a new game altogether, a game in which surprise and catastrophic, convulsive consequences occur, but are overcome in a joint effort, such as an alternative to chess. Life itself; some of the players could be of a finite persuasion, some could be more free form. They could kick around a problem ( a nuclear bomb?), rather than a soccer ball.

5. Make a groove in each player’s plastic form and insert one of the raffle tickets. Cut facets on the game ball, say 12, and in tiny writing name one raffle ticket object on each facet. Play soccer with them, and make note of the item on the soccer player and the item on the game ball when the ball is kicked. Create more pairs.

6. Attach pens to soccer players, or markers, place paper over their heads, fasten it to the table, play soccer and cause the players to make marks on the paper when they connect with the ball.

7. Something I really want to try, but not picked:

Put a piece of gold leaf on a pool of honey. Let the honey slowly run down a slope and cause the gold leaf to fracture. The patterns the gold leaf makes when fracturing would be like fractals, the surface changing from a fused, united stability to many convulsive breaks. I have sticky, viscous substances in my studio and hoped gold leaf and something sticky would turn up. I will do this project any way. Is this a convulsive fusion? It is a decision to convulsively ignore the process, and a fusion of my ideas.

Things in my work space:

oil paint 
acrylics
gel mediums
gesso
water colors
gouache
many brushes
lots of pencils
utility knives
razor blades
scissors
awls
ivory handled cut-throat razor
duct tape
scotch tape 
double sided tape
lead sheet
cement powder
plaster of paris
polymer clay
pasta maker
angle-poise lamp
joint compound
metallic pigment
gold leaf
fake gold leaf
aluminum leaf
metallic leaf particles and scraps
gold-size
gilding knives
manganese blue pigment
muller
lead glass for grinding pigment on and making oil paint
1914 Sears Catalog
transparencies of images from the catalog
antique lace
intaglio press
copper
FeCl bath for etching
oil-based printing inks
aqua inks
syringes
Aqua monoprint inks
files
metal polish
sand paper
stochastic screen
carbon paper
mylar sheets
nori paste
Talas paper glue
whiting
syringes
hole punch
plastic fish trays
chest of drawers
shelves
radio
ipod dock
wasp nest 
shells
moldy gourds
Racu pottery
smooth stones
bird feathers
dead beetles
dead spiders
live spiders
printing papers
printing inks
many solvents
Block printing surfaces
carving tools
light sensitive chemicals
aquatint spray
air compressor
sink
collection of jars
jars filled with old solvent
milk paint
Q tips
hammer
oil
wood scraps
glue guns
wall paint
primer
bubble wrap
tissue paper
framing parts
thumb tacks
drill press
radial arm saw
chain saw
fiber-glass sheets
bondo stuff
marine varnish
steel rulers
T squares
protractor
compass
french curves
set-square
pica ruler
tape measure
clamps
hammers
dremel tool
Bosch drill
miniature cutting blades
miniature sander
trash bin
plexi-glass sheets
flax canvas
box of hand-cut stencils and masks
wood
drift wood
fabric
glitter
drop cloth
glue
natural sponges
bamboo sponges
dish soap
paper towels
trash
nails
pencils
paper bags
screw drivers
shop vac
fussball table
cat
mice