ARE 190 Post # 5

My Studio Exploration project will hopefully be present in the court yard in front of the humanities and lecture center. The questions that I am facing right now are: whether or not i want to incorporate the entire court yard in my piece or just focus on the high traffic sections of the court yard? how will i get the students to interact with my piece? how will i start to get the students to interact with the piece without them thinking that i am the artist? also how will i be able to document their interaction with the piece, will i video tape it, take pictures or both? i would first need to get clearance if i can even work with chalk in the court yard, but i am leaning more on just doing a section of the court yard during class time when no one is really outside to see what i am doing. if the students saw what i was doing ahead of time it wouldn't have the same effect. i plan on leaving chalk out for the students to write on the sidewalk how the feel about the piece and where they fit into it. i plan on doing this by just striking conversations with random people so that i could keep them guessing so that they have this feeling like they don't really know what is going on. i was recently referenced to an artist's who goes by the same concept of using their environment in their art pieces, but allowing people to interact with it and documenting it in a while that you can get their true reactions toward the pieces. his name is Matthew Mazzzotta. to learn more about him his site is http://matthewmazzotta.com/section/87278.html