Pathway Session

Today was relaxing to me actually. Spent much time just doing things without much thinking.

First, we were asked to do three kinds of drawings:

1. Put one shoe into a bag. Draw with left hand, 3 times, feeling it in the bag. What It feels like and how you mark it, not knowing it’s a shoe. Continuously line drawing. The tip of the charcoal is your finger.
2. Look at the shoe. Continuous line with right hand, eyes movement. 1 min holding. 5 times.
3. 10 min, 5min per person, tell each other your feeling of touching of the other’s shoe. 

1. I actually forgot about continuously line drawing as I drew. It was a bit frustrating I was watching what I was drawing and it didn’t really make sense… And I wasn’t really able to draw different textures as I felt.
2. It’s easier because I was only looking at the shoe and my hand just went freely on paper as my eye moved on the shoe.
3. I didn’t full understand some words Jess used so it was a bit hard, too. I wasn’t thinking about shoe at all. I just tried to draw what she described about shapes, connections and textures.

Words of remembering the experiences of touching, visual and conversations:

1. Messy
2. Repeated
3. Texture
4. Temperature
5. Shape
6. Angle
7. Break
8. Linear
9. Blurry
10. Explore
11. Imagine
12. Free
13. Partial

Then we started to deconstruct our shoe:

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There really turned out to be much more parts than I expected. It’s such a complicated job to make shoes. There’re some hidden surprises: green color, cardboard and patterns.

Then we started to reconstruct our shoe:

At last, we were asked to draw our response to our reconstruction:

At last, I didn’t finish it though. I poked many holes along the lines. It looked too smooth at the beginning. Neither what I built nor the life paths were smooth actually. So holes kind of represented the texture or the difficulties we got along the way we went through.

Many classmates’ drawings are beautiful.

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