Photocopier poems by my compost class (the prompt).
Tag: student work
Exercise: Compost mural
From a 20 foot mural my class made today in 50 minutes (give or take). The prompt: using only the materials you have on hand, or can forage from the surrounding environment without breaking the law or hurting anyone’s feelings, express your understanding of “the art of compost” (course title). In other words, a crash course in targeted bricolage.
Exercise: Object poem
Here’s their exercise for tomorrow:
Create an object poem using materials from your recycling bin. Words are optional. Examples: a collage of beer bottle labels; a mosaic made of Coop container plastic; a mobile of crushed pop cans held together by coat hangers.
Class note
Great presentations by my students, yesterday and today, on composting in pop culture. Delighted how they’ve brought the mind of compost to J Dilla’s sampling technique, Karen Dalton’s bluesy borrowings, the distractive matrix of Twitter, the genre transmissions of Lindsey Stirling. I’ll hope to post some of their work here before we’re done together.
The Art of Compost 
