*** These activities also require additional
materials which are easy to
come by: Plastic water bottles (4 per group) Plastic soda bottles (1 per group) Plastic cups (16 per group) Small rocks (2 - 3 cups per group) Sand (2 - 3 cups per group) Old t - shirts (1 per group) Dirt (1 large Ziploc bag per group) Variety
of edible plant seeds, at least 8
different kinds (tomato, lettuce, etc...) Salt (1 large container per group) Sticks (10 per group) String (1 roll per group) Roll
of plastic trash bags (1 bag per group) Duct tape (1 roll per group) Foam pool noodles (1 per group) Poster board (1 per group) Rubber bands (5 - 10 per group) A container large enough to hold water for testing floatation (ideally 1 per group but can be just 1 for the class) *** Please make sure to rate and leave feedback.
In the film Schnabel remarks: «I started to use
different kinds of materials because I was looking for some
kind of new way to paint... working with things that already exist affords you associations that are beyond your invention... I see opportunities everywhere as paintings, in images that already exist, in surfaces that will repsond to paint a certain way, or it might
come from an accident... I realized a picture could be the architecture
of a painting... so I would select thigns that already had pictures - images
of things impregnated on them - and then I could treat them as a blank canvas... let them inform what I was doing and make me react to what was there and
come out with a hybrid painting... it has a much to do with reacting rather than acting.»