Worldmaking Questions: 

Attempt 2 - more specificity with respect to the experiment

1. View:

●      What is the big picture? Performing actions based on a prompt. The intention is to do something new and different from my usual practices to gain a new and broader framework for understanding and acting in the world.

●      What is the paradigm (of values) behind it all?  Grad school, submit to instructor, suspend judgment, observe without allowing things to fall into preexisting modes of understanding.

●      What are the main values that it is in opposition to? Previous way of being in the world where preexisting thought patterns dictate understanding. In the older framework there is little possibility for anything new because outcomes are already in a way anticipated and determined.

●      What model of action are you using? Using a number of chance and linguistic operations to get to somewhere I wouldn’t otherwise explore. Attempting to develop new ways of understanding that are less discreet/ quantified. The goal is rather to understand things as a gradient of known possibilities and allowing the potential for unforeseeable and unknowable possibilities to emerge.

2. Intention:

●      What is the practice’s concrete intentions? Playing with rocks glass and water, trying to use this to get at some sort of sense of ‘breaking like waves.’

●      What are the practices implicit intentions? Doing leads to understanding.

●      How do you differ from the intentions of a single piece and the whole of the practice? Iterative combination of elements.  

●      3. Speech:

●      What do you need to communicate to allow the work to have a context? The difference between say a discreet, binary system of understanding and a more relativistic, wavelike understanding of the world.

●      What terms and concepts do you have to develop? Better articulation. Better understanding and relation to the experience of others – I am finding that it is very difficult to relate or even imagine art as I once did or as the way other people think about it. Perhaps terms that exist with a spectrum of meaning. Linguistic methods that take this into account and allow gradients of meaning to flourish.

●      What spaces of dialog is your work involved in? My studio, our worldmaking class/blog, occasionally I can articulate something sensible to people outside our community, but lately I get stressed out and confused.

4. Action:

●      What are the practices associated with the work? In studio experimentation. Reflection, reframing of worldview.

●      What are the key actions involved in making the work? Combine elements apply wave like energy, do so without thinking too much, follow the process.

5. Livelihood:

●      What are the actual life practices associated with your question?

●      How do you make a livelihood? Aimless experimentation with glass does not equal food or shelter. Maybe this sort of thing could lead to some practical understanding of glasswork or could yield some sort of teaching position.

●      Where do you need to work? A place where the glass won’t hurt anyone else.

●      What does this consist of?

●      Who are you working with? Others in worldmaking class.

6. Effort:

●      Perfection: What does perfection look like in regards to this work? If I had any idea what that would look like…..

●      What are you actually striving for? I don’t know -  if I did I would just end up somewhere I have already been right?

7. Mindfulness:

●      How do make sure all the parts of this practice are part of the same general logic?

8. Concentration:

●      Where should you locate your effort? Myself. I need to find a way to feel less like an emotionally unstable, directionless waste of resources.