Personal Territory

http://www.google.com/mapmaker?hl=en&gw=55&iwloc=2_0&editids=NYlHT1Hf73xit6RbdK&ll=42.256263,-77.789925&spn=0.003335,0.008208&t=h&z=18&lyt=large_map&hll=42.256249,-77.78955&hyaw=307.38356029166147

here is a link to my personal territory boundary

List Of 50 things

1. mail man

2. mail truck

3. reddish dirt

4. brownish dirt

5. little stones

6. some dead brown, dry, brittle leaves

7. cute pebbles

8. a christmas reef

9. crisp air

10. Mud

11. Puddles

12. tire tracks

13. crows

14. small twigs

15. big twigs

16. a plastic bag

17. flat ground

18. red leaves

19. love

20. compact car

21. alfred state buildings

22. Parking signs on side of building

23. faded parking lines

24. faded blacktop

25. parking light on the side of the building

26. lights from alfred state

27. boring white wall

28. a wooden shed

29. grey shingles on top of shed

30. trees bordering my territory on three sides

31. pot holes

32. hill in the backround

33. cracks in the asphalt

34.wood borders for the parking lot

35. fairly large space

36. the creek runs right by it

37. dumpster

38. empty potato chip bag

39. beer bottle cap

40.long tree shadows

41.pine cones

42. a random person

43. a grey bug under a soggy leaf

44. car tire

45. small shrubs growing up

46. squirrel

47. the sounds of cars passing by

48. the sound of crows

49. moss on some small rocks

50. peeled off bark

Final Project Description

The park is supposed to show the cycle of bristleness; It shows how when things are alive they are bristle and over time they lose their bristle qualities until they are practically flat, soft and smooth.  One side of the park starts off bristle and in the dying and decaying state.  Then as you move towards the middle of the park the matter becomes softer and less bristle. On the opposite side of the park the cycle completes itself by starting over again; new life spawns and things become bristle again.  A beautiful cycle isn’t it man?

Virtual Tour of Final Project: Bristle Cycle Park

Watch the Virtual tour on youtube

Final Project: Bristle Cycle Park

George, 46, with his two kids Timothy, 7, and Alexandra, 5, take a midday stroll at the new Bristle Cycle Park.  lol

Proposal #3

I would walk on the line and find people and ask them to touch a bristle material.  I would record their facial expressions with a video camera as well as the hand to material contact in one shot.  I would also ask them what memory in there life first comes to their mind as they touch it.

Proposal #2

Another idea is for me to make soft things bristle.  A way to do this would be to cut things to make them bristle, such as leaves, rocks, tree bark sticks and other things on the line.  I could also smash materials such as rocks to achieve bristle qualities.  I then would like to display  the smashed and cut materials next to the uncut and non smashed materials.

Proposal #1

I think it would be a good idea to make a dome, or some sort of shape with sticks and other materials on the line. After completing the initial structure, i will then search for objects on the line that have bristling qualities and attach them to the structure so they make the structure spiky.  Maybe the final project will look like a porcupine or hedgehog.

 

Bristling Explorations on the Line

Exploration #1

Testing the ground

Basically I took my shirt off, laid down and got to business.  I was testing the bristle-ness of the surface.

Exploration #2

The Bushes

This is quite the collection of bushes: Big ones, small ones, all bristle in nature.  The best way to feel the different bristle qualities was to smear my face into them.

I came across really bristle tree branches of all the same length

I pressed my knee against the sharp stairs

A card board box I stumbled across. the edge of the flap was smooth at first, then I cut it up a little bit and walla, it turned bristle.

Word Definition: Bristling

Something that is bristle is short and thin, but tough. It is a good word to describe a man’s facial hair.  The word in many ways is similar to the word brisk. Think of the word brisk as the intangible definition of bristle.

Definition

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bristling

v. bris·tled, bris·tling, bris·tles

v.intr.

1. To stand stiffly on end like bristles: The hair on the dog’s neck bristled.

2. To raise the bristles: The cat bristled at the sight of the large dog.

3. To react in an angry or offended manner: The author bristled at the suggestion of plagiarism.

4. To be covered or thick with or as if with bristles: The path bristled with thorns.

v.tr.

1. To cause to stand erect like bristles; stiffen.

2. To furnish or supply with bristles.

3. To make bristly; ruffle.

Bristle

synonyms

brush, fiber, (causes: reacts, respond) abound, burst, barbed, fit, hair

antonyms

soft, elegant, calm

2. How something that is bristle makes you react.

3. No matter the part of speech, the different definitions are really the same.  I feel like you couldn’t have the definition for the verb form of bristle without the noun form.

4. Bristling, Google images:

cute baby pig, the surface of the sun. A house cat, an attractive lady , a cute porcupine, a decoder.

5. Big L, Tupac, Eminem- illmatic rappers. Their lines are definitely bristling.   the tree bark, rough rocks, the cold splashing

6. The word makes me think of clear sensations like a cold breeze on your face or a cold splash of water, a rough carpet

7. The softer the emotions, and physical materials, the less bristle it is.  So once something becomes more soft than rough

The Line

O dip, the Line project!  I explored the line where it intersects the creek behind Cohen.  I liked that spot because I felt it had the highest concentration of activity and the most interesting elements.  At the conclusion of the explorations it is apparent that the space was interesting.

First I scaled a straight tree trunk about ten feet up!  That hurt my hands.  It offered an interesting way to interact with the space and it offered some great views!

I then wanted to cross the creek and began to think of ways I could do this creatively.  So inspired by the visiting artist earlier in the day, I decided to lick the water as I crawled on the rocks!  I sure hope there wasn’t any tar in the water!

I thought about how myself, a homo sapien, could be involved in the nature scene, but do it in a way so that the formation i create would become a part of nature as opposed to a man made object that is intended to separate from nature.  To do this Pat Taylor and I worked together to achieve that notion.  We threw rocks from the banks into a pile in the center of the creek.  I observed how the water moved around it and how the flow of the water was altered at that particular point.  The bank of the creek on one side changed as the result of the displaced rocks.

As I was sifting for ideal rocks, Pat and I discovered a remarkable cluster of fossilized shells!  Just simply amazing!  This must surely be the coolest item on the entire line and most definitely the most intriguing object located in the space I examined.

The sound of the water was soo chill.  I just wanted to fall asleep to the noise.  Pat Taylor and I decided to record the noise.  When you really think about it, there is never one splash sequence that repeats itself twice; an infinite amount of splash noises and sequences.