WEEKLY SELFIE 5: PERFORMING A DREAM - Yosiry Beltre

If I had the money, time, and perseverance I would be an animator. I tried to portray this by drawing a ball hitting an imaginary ceiling. 

NYTimes | Being Marina Abromovic

Quote 1: "But when the project’s budget ballooned out of her control (Koolhaas’s plans alone were estimated to be $31 million, which didn’t include the handling of the theater’s pre-existing asbestos problem) and her fund-raising efforts fell short (a Kickstarter only got her to a little over half a million dollars), Abramović decided to turn it into something that didn’t depend on a physical location. Its new slogan? “Don’t come to us; we come to you.”"
Response: The slogan is so fitting for art in general because if you're passionate about art and want to work on it creatively, you have to let the ideas come to you. 
Quote 2: "I hate the studio. It’s a trap to me. Ideas come from life."
Response: I feel like we've forgotten as a society that art is meant to be fun, especially when we see artists stuck in dead-end jobs making things just to meet a corporation's deadlines or worst-case scenario, unemployed. 

Instruction Pieces

1. Hungry
Carry a bag of quarters
Take one snack from every vending machine you come across
Now share half a bag with everyone who asks
Fall 2024, 11:38 AM

2. Getting YOUR Ass kicked
Imagine yourself punching the sun
Imagine the sun punching you back
Take a good nap
Wake up in the middle of the night
Fall 2024, 11:43 AM

3. Cradle to Grave
Go outside
Look at the first baby you see
Look at the first old person you see
Get out a pencil and paper
Draw the old person as a baby, and the baby as an old person
Fall 2024, 11:50 AM