Meet in the Middle For the meeting in the middle project, my partner Emily lives in Ocean View off campus and I am on campus. So trying to find our middle distance between each other was a bit challenging but quite the adventure. When we first met up to see our middle it was private property so we had to adapt and find a usable space for our installation. Right next to our middle destination was a small stretch where you could pull over and behind was what looked like a run down park/open space. As we were there trying to figure out what to do cars would zoom by not looking what was around them. So Emily and I decided to make three stop signs with one sort of cryptic word on each so it wasn't so obvious. The first with the word EASE, to signify slowing down. The second was STILL, to signify stopping. The last was RELEASE, to signify releasing off the break and going. All three of the stop signs show the motions or thought process of encountering a stop sign. But the sign cou...
Prop and Generosity Performance Art For my prop and generosity performance piece I based it on a memory that I have of me and my grandpa. When I was younger me and my family would visit my grandma and grandpa's house in Waco a couple times a year. Me and my grandpa, Poppy Jo, would go in the front yard and sit on this stone bench under a pecan tree. He would then get a pecan shell from the tree, open it with his bare hands, and then share the pecans he opened with me. I made a prop for everyone that consisted of a container with each person's name on it and three pecans. Then a piece of paper handwritten for everyone to explain further the project, the paper said: In this simple thing my grandpa would do with me I felt his generosity and love towards me. I felt his generosity in those moments we used to share together by him just giving me something so simple and small. ...
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