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Minor Assignment #1

WK 1
TU JAN 29

a place to begin ...

I am excited about beginning our new semester together!
For a starting place, I would like for each of you to go to my professional website at 
and look at a series of drawings from 2017 called Thaw.
The link above will take you directly to the drawing page.

Please select one drawing from the group and describe what you see:
  • How is line operating?
  • Does the color remind you of anything from the world-at-large?
  • What do you imagine the larger 'bubble' pink shape to be?
  • What ideas do you perceive in reading the brief project statement?
  • Remember, there are no 'wrong' answers here. Rather, I am simply interested in what the drawing you have selected is communicating to you.
  • There are two pages of these drawings, so make sure you tab over to 2/2 at the lower right edge of the page post.
Specifics:
2 paragraphs, 200 words
hardcopy

DUE next class

TH JAN 31


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