Proposal
My proposal is to create a mural for
that town that serves as a visual response to interviews in which I conduct
with local residents. During childhood I
always found by neighborhood to be desolate, dull and uneventful and so in doing
this research I’m interested in exploring and asking, “Why is here is home?”, “Why
have you chosen to establish a life in Long Island? and “What it is about this
place that you find special?” The mural could potentially take on the form of
either a painted, wheat pasted or tiled mural with vivid, bright imagery and
stream-of-consciousness captions pulled from interviews which convey personal
memories, fears and aspirations. The illustrative display will offer a playful
alternative to an otherwise dreary suburban area. The human themes here make
this public space integrate and honor the personal and draw in an audience that
will both inspire and inform artists and art lovers alike.
Subsets to the Proposal
1. While
conducting interviews with the local residents of my town on Long Island why
they’ve chosen Long Island as their home and how this environment has affected
their lives. Whatever transpires during the interview and whatever stands
out to myself or the interviewee will then become the subject matter for a
blackboard mural that I would quickly sketch behind them. Afterwards I will
photograph with resident and their unique depiction of their visual world. The
end result would be a series of photographs that I then compile into a book.
2. While
conducting interviews with the local residents of my town on Long Island why
they’ve chosen Long Island as their home and how this environment has affected
their lives. I will then photograph the resident and photograph whatever
environment in Long Island it is that they think of when they think of home. I
will later illustrate the resident as a character in their surrounding environment
and collectively wheat paste all the final illustrations on one wall of the
neighborhood to express how one area or one ideas of home can be many different
places in the same neighborhood.
3. While
conducting interviews with the local residents of my town on Long Island why
they’ve chosen Long Island as their home and how this environment has affected
their lives. We would then organize an event in which each resident would
come and paint a tile using either text or image to visually convey a memory or
feeling associated with the neighborhood and make a mural that is compiled of
the many different perceptions of Long Island.
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