Five possibilities for 'breaking like waves,' done quantity over quality, attempting to eschew former methodologies (personal, embodied experience, participatory, lived).
1. One way that waves break things is through continued battering over time. To break rocks, as waves do, this piece would consist of a rock tumbler, full of rocks. The piece occurs as the rocks are tumbled into sand.
2. Another way is to consider the military. The plan for this iteration is an assault. Waves of soldiers are sent towards a fortification until it is breakthrough occurs.
3. Waves can break things by imparting too much energy. The instruction for this iteration is to derive the resonant frequency of a wine glass then bombard it with sound waves of that frequency. The sounds sets the glass into resonance and energy builds up in the structure. The piece is complete when the vibrations cause the glass to shatter.
4. This piece is purely visual. It is a painting of water waves breaking like they do. The underpainting will be yellow. Layers of blue and green are glazed on to create an image mimetic of semi-translucent water waves, breaking like they do.
5. A dog (or other animal) is tied to an elastic system of restraint which allows some movement. The force with which the system pulls the animal back towards its anchor point is proportional to distance from the anchor point. The animal is underfed for a day or two and a choice food item is placed just outside the reach of the animal (as permitted by the system). The animal repeatedly advances towards the food before becoming exhausted and being pulled back by the system. This is similar to the way in which waves advance and retreat on a shoreline (minus the food impetus). As the animal tires, successive attempts fall shorter and shorter, similar to the approach of low tide.
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