Corita suggested cutting pictures from magazines as a starting point for many assignments. Let's try combining some cutting and folding ideas.
"Using a finder, cut out a hundred four-inch by four-inch sections of photos from a magazine. They may be details or complete images, but keep in mind that they will be put together in a book. Find twenty-five poems you like and place them with the photographs. Look at the book again in two weeks and write three lines on each page about the connections, visual and poetic, that were made" (Kent & Steward, 2008, p. 106).
"Cut the pages of a magazine into five-inch sections. Paste the sections vertically edge to edge, until they form a strip thirty-five feet long. Score the strip irregularly in many places and then fold it. Unfold the strip and stand it up and fashion it into a maze with walls five inches high. Write down twenty-five things you can see in your maze. Remember one thing that happened to you at home and write down twenty-five things in your maze that relate to that. When you have worked very hard at all the parts of this assignment, you should be very tired, so you might relax and drink coffee or beer or close your eyes. Later on you might recall the experience and write about it. You will have many relationships that will give you many ideas to live with" (Kent & Stewart, 2008, p. 107)
How does our perception of an image change, depending on what other images are near it? How does this visual concept speak to intersectionality, and how circumstances of our lives intersect to shape the way we view the world and others in one's community?
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