Micro/Macro

Whenever I go to the beach I always think of how brutal the sun is going to be to my fair skin. Since I have this problem I always make sure to pack my SPF protection or sunscreen. Bradford beach makes me thinkof many things, but one object I think of is this particular bottle of spray sun screen, which than makes me think of a specific trip to the beach. I'm a summer camp counselor out in Pennsylvania and this particular bottle of sun screen was actually one that a camper left behind this previous summer, I of course naturally took this sun screen bottle as my own. When I went to the beach back in August I whipped out my newly aqquired sunscreen bottle, and the people who accompanied me and I had a good laugh about it. So in reality the beach is reminding me of anobject, which is than reminding me of a memory.

Thinking of an object that reminded me of a place in Milwaukee was difficult. I find many of the objects that I possess relate to the place that I got them from. I finally decided that a certain wig reminded me of Foundations, a bar located in Riverwest. This particular wig is from a character that I created for a collaborative project, "Louise and Chadd". The very first picture that was taken for this project was taken at foundations, so when I look at the little black bob wig with a red bow on it I think of Foundations.

I collaborated with other classmates Ally Santiago, and Lisa Press to create a break in some ones path. With this in mind we laid out strawberry popcorn seeds and dry bean

s in a long snake like pattern. This is similar to my small personal intervention because yet again the person has to decide what to do as they are walking past this. I was very curious to see how people would react to this random design on the sidewalk. Surprisingly when I checked the next morning our snake like design was left pretty much the same. I did receive a text from my landlord asking if I was responsible for the twenty foot bean snake on our sidewalk, but he also took a picture of it too, which I thought was pretty interesting.

(Photograph taken by my landlord a few hours after we had made it.)