so here are some vis-com blog assignments, and they will have to be sufficient without any grand narrative of what's been going on in classes & studio. sorry to disappoint?
2 potential themes, twenty words/ideas apiece.
hometown:
mother
playing outside
hide & seek
growing
confidence
masturbation
partying
uninhibition
mistakes
"first love"
"virginity loss"
broken hearts
repression
familiar streets
packing
hugging
leaving
moving
unpacking
normalizing
shrine
cohabitation:
conversation
inhabiting
furniture
acquisition
duplicates
amalgam
space-sharing
intimacy
bed-sharing
sex
side-by-side
ordinary
shopping
eating
sharing
creating
union
family
inside
fulfilling
the fact that it is so miserably hard for me to pull 20 words of a topic out of the three full mindmaps i have made says something about how i must not be using mindmaps correctly.
i think that maybe with lateral thinking i end up never getting into any of the things i actually wanted to write about. i had this concept of a progression of growing up, moving out of your parents' home, moving in with somebody else, and trying to make a new home. but i got so continually (literally) sidetracked by all the tangential things, the items on the sidelines, trying to accommodate everything and include everything, that i never actually got into the meat of the story i thought i wanted to tell. so i have three full mindmaps that mostly just tell about everything without, i'm afraid, really telling about anything, leaving me with hundreds of words but no 20 together all directly (or even reasonably indirectly) related to one topic.
anyway. i'm sure this will be refined as we move forward, so it should work out in the end.
Just keep following the process - diligently and rigorously - and be conscientious of the moves you make along the way, and yes, "it should work out in the end".
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