Buntport Theater

Obstructions

A black-and-white seal that says “Buntport Bored Post Society Society”. In the center of the seal is a mailbox with some letters.

Obstructions Visual Assignment in 4 parts:
1. Make a self portrait using any medium you’d like.

2. Make the portrait again using a medium you DO NOT like.

3. Show someone the new portrait. Have them describe what they like about it. Create a third portrait depicting only the features they liked.

4. Watch the official music video for REM’s “Man Sized Wreath” and Tame Impala’s “Feel like We Only Go Backwards”. Create a new portrait inspired by one of the animation styles.

A series of four images. The first is a portrait of an older woman with short hair and glasses. It is stitched in black thread on white fabric. The second is the same woman drawn in colored pencils. A quote at the top says “I like your crooked mouth, your glasses, and your hair.” The third is a black-and-white drawing of just the woman's mouth, glasses, and hair. The final is a colorful collage on black paper. Again, the woman's mouth, glasses, and hair, but with added polka-dots and plaids.
A series of four images. The first is a detailed pen-and-ink drawing of a smiling man with short hair and stubble. The second is a portrait of the same man done in markers. The third is just the man's eyes and eyebrows. The final drawing is done in colored pencils. The head shape of the man is filled with colorful blotches. Around the head in a triangle of black-and-white stripes.
A series of three images. The first is a pen-and-ink drawing of a person in a USPS uniform, holding a box up. The are saying “Is there anything liquid, fragile, perishable, or potentially hazardous in your package...such as lithium batteries, mercury, or perfume?” The second is the same drawing in pencil without the words. The final is a colorful close-up of the person's hair, eyes, nose, and ear. It has a modern art blotchy vibe.
A series of three images. The first is a sketchy waist-up black-and white drawing of a person with short hair and glasses. The second is the same drawing, but without the person's head. Only their clothes and hair remain. The third is a blocky modern art drawing of the same person. They are done in a cubist style, with swirls behind.
A black-and-white seal that says “Buntport Bored Post Society Society”. In the center of the seal is a mailbox with some letters.

Obstructions Written Assignment in 4 parts:

  1. Write a description of yourself.
  2. Re-write the description detailing the same things but DO NOT use the letter O. find work arounds.
  3. Read the most recent description to someone. Wait 24hrs. Ask them to tell you what they remember. Re-write your description in a fantasy genre emphasizing what they remember, no matter how wrong.
  4. Re-write a description of yourself, this time is must rhyme.
A photo of text in 4 columns- A short description of myself: I'm sixty-nine years old and am in fairly good health, although I'm on medication for both high blood pressure and cholesterol. I'm slightly overweight, so I try to take a walk every day, usually about two miles. I do a little yoga, which I enjoy, but for the most part | don't like strenuous exercise. Even as a child I hated having to play organized physical games. I've been happily married for nearly fifty years to the love of my life. I'm happy to be a mother and, now, a grandmother. I think the two most important things to do as a parent are to listen to your children and to read to them. I love to read and often go back to my favorite books over and over. I find it comforting to re-read them. I also like to make things. I love color and the older I get, the more I like the color green. I enjoy cooking, as long as I don't have to make the same dishes all the time. I also like yard-work, especially big projects, but I don't care for normal gardening maintenance. My eyes are blue and my once dark-blonde hair has become silver. I've worn glasses forever and feel naked in public without them. Finally, I'm a kind person, which is the quality I'm most proud to possess. A description without o's: I turned sixty-nine this year and am fairly healthy, despite taking hyper tenseness medicine as well as pills that reduce my lipid fats. I'm slightly plump and walk a few miles every day if can. I like stretching exercises but am unhappy with harder physical practices. Even as a child, hated running and playing structured games. I've been married nearly fifty years and esteem my husband. Having children and grandchildren is what makes me happiest. I think that reading with children and listening when they speak are special aspects in raising them. I like reading very much and find it calming when I re-read treasured tales. I'm amused by making things and am attracted by green hues. I Like preparing meals if I can use unusual ingredients. And I like large tasks in the yard but dislike regular gardening maintenance. My eyes are blue and my hair, which was dark flaxen when I was a teenager, is currently silver. I wear glasses and in public feel naked in their absence. My character quality that I find especially pleasing is that I'm kind. A short fantasy: The old woman had lived a long life, full of health, travel and happiness. She had been married to a good man for many years and her children and grandchildren brought an immense amount of joy into her life. But the child she found in her garden pulled at her heart strings in different way. He had not been under a cabbage leaf, but behind a rock that she was moving from one place to another. She stopped, her plump figure shadowing his face. She wondered if she had accidentally taken too much medicine that morning: what else could explain that she was seeing things? She shook the silver hair off her face. Then her bright blue eyes filed with tears; when she listened closely, she heard a tiny, plaintive voice calling to her and she knew the child needed her. She cleaned him, cooked for him, and wrapped him in a green quilt she'd made years before. Then she read to him for hours, many of the long-loved tales she used to read to her own children. Finally, she rose to tel her husband about their new child. She felt happy. The child needed help and she was in a position to give it. Ultimately, she was a kind old soul A bit of doggerel: I've lived a long and healthy life Full of joy and little strife I've loved my husband many years. We smile together through all our fears. My children always bring me joy And now my grands: a girl, a boy. I love to read, I like to sew, I cook and watch the garden grow. My dark blonde hair has turned to white, My waist is full- no longer slight. | need my glasses now to see (But always have. They're part of me) Of all my attributes, you'll find The best is this: that is, I'm kind.