#021: Does Silence Exist? I (A question that has already been answered)

A C90 tape continuously plays a number of field recordings.  Each is 2 minutes 20 seconds long and are ordered without spaces between.  The tracks (all apart from the last of which are repeated on each side) are: under a tree with birds singing, in a park with crickets, on a windy hilltop, at a beauty spot with distant traffic noise, in a garden while a plane flies over, in a room with air conditioning, in a room with a clock ticking, in a front room while it is raining, walking along a street, in a library, in an art gallery, sat still breathing, tinnitus, heartbeat in chest, nervous system, blood circulation, space “screaming”; Side A ends with a performance by The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lawrence Foster, of John Cage’s 4’33” recorded live at the Barbican on January 16th 2004, Side B with a realisation of 4’33” made for the Radio 3 podcast Hear and Now by Robert Worby and Felix Carey, 2’ 52”.  The remainder of each side is blank tape. 

#020: Are you there?

Imagine how you see all, or any, higher being(s) or power(s).

You have now created your own imaginary religious art.

#019: Diptych: Then and Now

Your first painting alongside what you would paint today.

A piece of string connects the two.

#018: The Creativity of the Mind

A white canvas that features two lines of simple black lettering.  

The first line larger than the second, they read:

“A pen.

This is not a picture.  But do you see one?”

#017: Colour your emotions (Inside Out)

Take a notepad or an exercise book.  Assign colours to your emotions and create a diary by filling each page with how you felt that day.  Perhaps a coloured shape for each incident through the day or a slowly changing line to scale for time.  You could create a succession of coloured circles along the lines of the paper or in swirls or other patterns across a blank sheet.  You could use graph paper and fill the squares as you feel appropriate (perhaps more or less squares depending on the intensity of the emotion).  It is up to you, it is not for me to say how you represent yourself or feel.

Then look back on good days, bad days and in between days and see only colour.  

#016: Joy coursing

The empty wrapper of your favourite snack.

Feel the joy coursing.

For, unlike with Magritte, you got to taste it.

Even just in your imagination it feels good.

#015: Neutral state, or In the Beginning, or Infinite potential, or Fill it with your mind

A blank canvas.