Drop Beats not Bombs

I've made a step in a direction.

This Saturday I started on my see where it goes plan and while I know I'm not creating in a vaccuum I'

m not totally sure how this all developed.

I started by taking apart my typewriter and found to my surprise that a typewriter is all one piece surrounded by

it's case. I don't know why I was struck by this, it is after all a machine, but

once the case was off so was my brain. While the outside was somewhat shiny and new the inside was as old and dirty and thus to my eyes beautiful as I always romanticized typewriters to be.

Somehow this sparked in my brain a ton of paper flying out of it. So that's what I did. Ideally what I want these pages to do is to create a wave of sorts that extends over the head of the viewer and then trickles out across the ceiling.... that will make more sense with a picture.

But this image I realized reminded me of an illustration I can't find where there's a flock of birds flying into a tree and a group of fighter planes flying out the other side dropping bombs.

Vaguely, it's something like this. I think this is because I view the pages as flying out of the typewriter, or even exploding. I think the reason I connect my image to the birds dropping bombs because I think I see a transformation in the trickling out of the pages in the same way that the birds come out of the group that forms the feathers and bombs transform the birds into airplanes.

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I was really excited about this break through and I still am. Wednesday I went into

class to re evaluate what I'd done when I saw a subconscious inspiration.

Now I do still like what I've done even though I feel somewhat unoriginal. But this all got me thinking again on what made this piece - I don't know, original? Or more importantly I guess I tried to figure out what my motivations were .

I see it as a visual translation of my process aka my word vomit of the last post. It all comes out in a jumbled mess but through it one or two ideas trickle out or escape to actually be manifested.

So what's left? Complete the wave. Attach it to the typewriter. Suspend it from the ceiling? Hopefully more to update when these questions are answered