#033: Musical feels in your own space and time (Let music rouse, stir and move you!)

Sit, just sit, maybe with your head on your knee, and put on a song, maybe THE song, or a piece of music, maybe THE piece of music, that makes you feel the most, tingle the most.  Close your eyes and listen as it stirs you inside, sets your hairs on end, gives you chills, brings tears to your eyes, a smile to your lips... let it rouse, stir and move you!  Lift yourself away for a few minutes, live outside the world and yourself.  Just your mind and your music.  

#032: Silence where no sound is made (Does Silence Exist? IV)

A blank piece of wall in an art gallery.

(Or, equally, a blank page in a book or an empty museum case, etc...).

#031: Self-portrait VI: Doorways

The doorways of your life positioned around an exhibition with short explanations as to their importance.  

They could be your bedroom door(s) growing up, dorm or hotel or caravan doors from holidays, doors to particular rooms at school, cabin doors, car doors, front doors, back doors, side doors, garage doors, shed doors, attic doors, hatches, trap doors...  

Anything of significance to you.

#030: Lightbulbs

A gallery with blank walls.  Around the room are many bean bags and other comfortable chairs.  In the middle of the room is a long table full of pots with pens in and sticky notes in boxes.  Several copies of the following instructions are fixed to the table:

“Sit down and have a think.  Imagine.  Invent.  Have an idea.

Write the idea down on as many sticky notes as you need and then stick those on the walls.

If you need some inspiration, before or after, read what people have written before.

Go home.  

Keep thinking.  Keep imagining.  Keep inventing.  Keep having ideas.

“He [John Lennon] once said that it’s an artist’s job to imagine … because that’s where new ideas come from.””

Further signs on the table ask for the return of the pens and there are separate bins underneath for old pens and discarded sticky notes.

#029: Self-portrait IV

An old diary, calendar or other record of what you did for a period of time.

#028: $ix Dollar Bills

Six United States one dollar bills displayed so that both sides of each can be seen.  They all have a four-letter word written in large capital letters on either side with a short sentence (or part of one) written in smaller letters underneath.

Bill #1 Obverse: LOVE 

                                        I love what you can do for me, the doors you can open.

                Reverse:         HATE 

                                        I hate how you shut me out, the walls that you build.

Bill #2 Obverse: TALK 

                                        You talk to me, promise me the stars.

                Reverse:         LIAR 

                                        You lie to me, every offer is fake.

Bill #3 Obverse: RISE 

                                        Each rise you offer, the most amazing views,

                Reverse:         FALL 

                                        Each fall ends badly, crushed by hidden traps.

Bill #4 Obverse: CHIC 

                                        Yet you are so chic, an accessory that talks big.

                Reverse:         JUNK 

                                        No matter the junk, the shit empire I’ve built.

Bill #5 Obverse: RICH 

                                        Tissue of the rich, liner of the nest,

                Reverse:         POOR 

                                        Cruel bane of the poor, a necessity too rare.

Bill #6 Obverse: FREE 

                                        And so, will you set me free, open roads to me?

                Reverse:         SERF 

                                        Or will you enslave me, shut off every forking path?

#027: Self-portrait III / Joint self-portrait III

Make lists of your favourite things: books, songs, albums, films, food, places, artworks...

Later on you could combine with others, finding similarities and differences to form joint self-portraits.  Venn diagrams, perhaps, showing where you meet, overlap and lie together.  And where you are poles apart.  Or opposites, in a way, circles completely separate but still interacting.