Meet in the Middle #theartassignment
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This assignment comes from Sarah Urist Green and PBS Digital’s The Art Assignment - a series that began in 2014, and has now given 60 assignments for people to try out and publish on social media. Each assignment is created by a different featured artist - this one was by Douglas Paulson, and Christopher Robbins of the brilliant Ghana ThinkTank. Both of them have art practices that deal with the meeting points between people, particularly cross-cultural meeting points where they can create reversals of how people normally see one another.
The rules were bent a bit on this task, to avoid wandering the wilderness lost and alone: we met at a nearby town and walked to the midpoint together. It was muddy, confusing, and fun! I took my infrared-mod camera to capture some mystical-looking footage of the journey, and Emily brought along some painting supplies, stopping to fill a watercolour brush pen with “adventure water” along the way.