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Click to hear soundscape I have used sound as a part of my everyday routine. I wake up and listen to NPR Up First and fall asleep listening to different sounds (e.g. rain sounds, thunderstorms, etc). I have had sleeping problems for as long as I can remember and the noises make falling asleep a little bit easier. I chose to create my own soundscape including noises that I find most soothing but also musical in a non-traditional way. I used loops of different train sounds put over a looping wind sound. When Marshall McLuhan says, " The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action, and every institution formerly taken for granted," I thought immediately about the way that I use sound in my life to fill up silence. I am very uncomfortble with silence. Growing up in a three bed...

I resonated with Stephen Perkins idea of the trouble maker vs institutional. I feel that I am also a trouble maker in the art world. I am also a big fan of the fluxus movement, so I am planning to look into his work in that movement. I was intrigued by Perkins idea of an "experimentation year." I wish that Lawrence allowed more room for experimentation in our studio practices.  Perkins usage of words as medium is an idea I have only begun to mess around with through artists books. I wonder how I could implement that into my own work that is primarily ceramic. The idea of art for the benefit of social change I find important and see underlying tones of this in my own work. I really liked the concept of hidden art, the way that Perkins randomly hid these little cards around museums and in public. I feel that I do this in my own way, throwing the majority of my ceramics pieces down by the river when I'm done with them.

something is happening ^click text above to see my set "we have now become aware of the possibility of arranging the entire human environment as a work of art" McLuhan 69 I have always been intrigued by the way people decide to make their space their own. I think you can tell a lot about a person by how they do this. my room, my private space is something I value heavily. I am a collector of sorts, mostly of found objects that I use to decorate my room. blank spaces drive me crazy. I guess I see my room of an installation of sorts, human environment as art.