Now that you’ve read all the stories the kids concocted in their clever and crazy little brainiums, I might as well ante up and offer my own results to your scrutiny.
The following little tale was generated based off of the student’s brainstorming of possible topics. The title had to be “The End of Ends” and the story had to be about the death of a cat. The other pieces will remain mysterious in an effort to not spoil the story. Enjoy.
For three consecutive Wednesdays in the beginning of August I conducted a workshop at 826 Valencia in San Francisco for a dozen or so kids, ages 11-14. The workshop was focused on creative writing and by the conclusion of the workshop the students were required to submit a story about a character who had died and was buried (possibly in the God’s Acre cemetery).
Here are the pieces they submitted, as they were submitted, in no particular order. Enjoy!
by Scott Lambridis
This is not an article intended to convince you to buy more art, but the tale of my recent purchase of a fifth artwork. This purchase completes a collection of one artwork from five of my favorite living artists: Dave Senecal, Lui Liu, Saré, Shelly Corbett, and Randall LaGro, all of whom are represented by A Muse Gallery. I am not an expert on art in any sense. I am merely someone who spends a lot of time thinking about his own mind and examining the way our internal reactions constitute our conscious and unconscious selves. While another collector might hang the last of his five pieces and walk away contented, I stand and stare at them in confusion, scratching my bald head. I wonder how the color, texture, medium, style, and even subject of these pieces can be so diverse while still communicating to me in what feels like identical dialects, a genre of my own design. Scratching alone does not suffice for me, so I pull a notepad and pen from my pocket and sit down to sort through my confusion by reducing this experience into its components.
I am sure you have heard the lament before; “artwork made by using a computer requires less talent than artwork made by traditional means”. Most of you probably already know the inherent falseness of this statement but should you find yourself in need of an analogy, I offer the following:
Talent is not merely resigned to technique, seductive as it may be.
