creative projects... something I actually want to work on!

Okay. so my teacher is letting us come up with our own project ideas and it can be about anything we are going over in class. (I have the same teacher for two classes). In previous blog entries, I mentioned the Inferno and well that it was what we have our project on. We can do anything. At first I was going to write just a normal college essay but have been trying to come up with a good creative idea and something I would actually want to do and work on. I want to be intrinsically motivated and see the end result not for the grade but for the project. Well I was in my Interpretation class and she assigned a new paper topic that is due after spring break and I came up with an idea I love love love! We read Franz Kafka's A Hunger Artist and I am going to write my paper on how Britney Spears is a hunger artist. Well while free writing on this paper and running with this crazy and out there idea I came up with an idea for my other class' project. I am going to make a deconstructed book. I'm basically going to buy an old used copy of the Inferno and "deconstruct it" or maybe even "reconstruct it".... I am going to illustrate the different scenes using pop up images, paint, symbols. I am even going to glue chucks of pages together and then cut circles going deeper and deeper into the book as if as you are flipping through you are going through all of the circles of hell. It's hard to describe and that is as best I could. I love being able to do my own thing and not have to follow rules set by someone else. I am very much a rule maker and that makes it easier for me to break or bend my own rules. There was certainly an incubation period for my Dante project idea. Those thoughts have been floating around in my brain forever and it wasn't until I was working on a different project that the idea came to me. Some creativity may be able to be triggered initially but some takes time.