Challenge #7 Fiat - Use car parts

Well there are no random Fiat car parts in my vicinity, so I am going to use the dregs located in my car. (NO it is not a shiny red Fiat.) Materials: map, paper, foil wrappers

Challenge #4 Create a piece based on children's art

I would like to be reflective and see what emerges but there are no 10-year-old children in my life. So I will have to wait until I can find a kid who would up for a collaboration. Maybe I should just go to the elementary school and steal someone's discarded drawing out of the trash.
Okay. I swiped a drawing. Don't know how old the kid is, maybe 5? 7? But look, it is expressive.Snakes.

My piece "Commune Wedding Party, Summer 2011" depicts an actual event. At the outdoor wedding I had left the main dance tent and was walking to my friend's cabin when I saw children reaching into a gunnysack, pulling out sticks, and throwing them into the air. It was twilight, a bit undeciperable like in Camus' "The Stranger." As I neared the children I could see an odd shape to the "sticks." The kids were throwing black rat snakes into the air!
The whole event spooked me and I went home. The next day when I talked to my wedding friend she said the kids found 23 snakes! Normal rural fun, according to her.
This is my documentation of the event.
Materials: paint, canvas, wood

Challenge #3 Create Pop Art - make it for today

"Big Mother (SUCK)"
My idea here is a commentary on computers and how technology is consuming our lives. We fear Orwell's Big Brother prophecy, yet I think we should be more fearful of Big Mother.Big Mother is the computer we go to throughout the day for answers to all of life's problems, questions, and quasi information. Mother is being replaced. Do we need family anymore? The "X" marks the danger warning. Big Mother has no soul, no warmth, no love. Nipples are painted inside each disc. We suck. Our Mother. Big Mother.
Materials: CDs,gray wood frame, paint, vintage Bell & Howell film letters, plastic marking tape

Challenge #2 Use motion

"Cyclone"

Be inspired by the Parkour acrobatics to create a piece featuring motion.

I am thinking energy. I make sculptures. I weld. So my natural choice is a kinetic piece. A swirl. A tornado. Something sucking. Air twisting. A ballet. Dance.

Here's the piece. Steel manipulated from a solid static form to something filled with energy, life. Forward.
Material: steel

Challenge #1 Create art using junky "art" as a jumping off point.

"Forgotten"
The players were lead into a room of questionable art, then asked to use one piece as an inspiration for a piece of your own.
I will choose the Santa painting since that is one that was not chosen by the others.
The box is a commentary on Christmas. Our society makes Christmas a MAJOR celebration of Capitalism. Although the holiday should be about giving we make it more about getting. The most interesting part of the charade is that we rarely remember what we received last year. I did my own little unscientific study and most people cannot recall any of the gifts-either given or received.
The box represents a present and yes, I am using the traditional colors or red and green-gorgeous complimetaries, if used in a vibrant way. Inside are the gifts-hidden and half-remembered.
Materials: vintage handmade box, glass, text from "Scrooge", Comfort bridle pad for horses, cardboard boxes, fiberfil, aluminum balls