the reflection room

I had a meeting with anyone who was confused or wanted to be involved last Friday and it was so great to have the opportunity to talk with and feed cookies to a table full of people I respect about my ideas and how they want to be involved. Joe acted out his potential role as the life-size vacuum-manatee stuffed animal, Will requested an extensive use of attach-able beards, and Dani bravely signed up to be a Conductor.

Cutest conversation of the meeting:
(during the topic of food, and having a room as part of the installation for a "reception" of sorts?)
EMILY: the food could be in the "reflection room" where people go after the installation to reflect about the event.
JOE: and it could be filled with mirrors!

JOE: You should have food that is weird. Like, goldfish, suspended, in something.
ALIYA: Like Jello!? alive goldfish? or the little crackers?
JOE: (unsure)
(everyone discusses how one could use a hamster-ball, or Ian's rice-cooking-sphere, or small cups or plastic bags to encapsulate plastic or real or cracker goldfish in jello. or hang them from the ceiling)
EMILY: We could make CORNBREAD.... out of CHOCOLATE!
JOE: You should make STRAWBERRIES..... out of FROSTING!

Joe later volunteers to be the person that "carves" a large ginger-bread house into little chunks so that guests could eat the left wall or the chimney of the mini-ginger-bread version of the installation.

{{A special thank you to Elizabeth for making sure I didn't continue to add random things to the cookies and make them taste like rocks, which is how most of my normal-recipe-cookies turn out.}}

Thank you all who came out to the meeting and I'm getting really excited to keep going and make things happen. This weekend's plan is to finish some "packets" that will have patterns and fabrics and instructions for other people to start sewing some stuffed animals together. It's a snap! It's a breeze! You can sew in class or on a bus! I can't wait to see these animals infiltrate the world around me...

Also exciting is the development of the UNIFORMS and sharp lookin' BADGES & INSIGNIAS! March 13 (the "dress rehearsal" of the performance part of "entering" people into this art-world) is fast approaching! A bit scary, but really, I needed a deadline to kick my butt a bit.

SOOO. If you've been waiting to participate, now's the time! Tell your friends! and also tell me! The band of Art-Conductors is forming NOW, and you don't want to miss this.

talk to you soon,
aliya