Ju-Pong Lin's List: research for Advisees

• • beautiful passage, poetically frames the practicum not as an activity of "making," but more of a meditation on the interconnectedness of all material things and beings.

  • "the watershed is more than a collection of waters, creatures and land. It is also the silent exchange between air, water, earth and life. It is a mirror for our own eternal nature... connecting past present and future."
• • "we are not just a body"  "The river cannot contain the watershed anymore than our body can contain our soul."  In the next paragraph, "met" should be meant?
    
    
•   I realized it wasn’t just ‘them.’  I was just as responsible for the problem. 
• polarizing
• troubling ambiguity for me
• • e.g. why do we as a society tolerate an individual's right to travel regularly in private planes when that sucks up an unconscionable amount of fuel while contributing much more to planetary crisis than the average person.
• broken sense of  social responsibility
• • The practicum now takes on a new form in your portfolio. Doesn't the documentation of your private, intimate meditation now make this public? I think you're already engaging a wider audience than you did when you walked the river in solitude. This work is now re-presenting that solitude and intimate space in such a way as to cast these questions beyond the immediate time and space of your experience. 
• have of
• • should be "For too long..."
• • The names of these artists should be listed first, then format the citation appropriately.

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