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The Breaking Project: Discussion

(photo/painting: Alice Lesnick)

 

There are a number of ways to engage in dialogue with the pieces on The Breaking Project, as well as with their creators and other readers.

  • Each Breaking Project piece has the option to "Add new comment" at the bottom of the page. You may add comments as you wish and reply to other comments about/sparked by individual pieces.
  • This page's comment space will serve as a general Discussion board for The Breaking Project. To join in the discussion, simply click on "Add new comment" below, or add to a thread by replying to someone else's comment.

We are looking forward to seeing where our conversations take us!

 

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The Breaking Project: Add a Piece

breaking the surface, breaking through surfaces  . . . freedom to go way down deep, into the unknown and usually unseen . . . down, through, then -- ? . . . the ripples out . . .

This is an open project. In addition to reading/viewing and commenting on current pieces, you are invited to submit work and become a part of The Breaking Project. Here are some ways in which you can do so.

  • You can ADD A PIECE. We are interested in any and all pieces that are connected to the theme of Breaking; the form is entirely up to you.
  • You can ADD TO THE WORKBOOK, suggesting new prompts, catalyzing agents, queries, ways out, ways in . . . If you submit a piece to the Breaking Project, it would be excellent if you could also submit an accompanying Workbook piece.
  • You can ADD RESOURCES that you believe connect with our project--anything that allows the reader to glean a deeper understanding of your piece and positioning in particular, and of our project as a whole (sources of inspiration, pedagogical groundwork, projects and endeavors that you believe connect with ours, etc.).
  • Have another idea? Something that does not fit the pages/categories we already have? Let us know!

If you would like to submit a piece to The Breaking Project, please email Alice Lesnick (alice.lesnick@gmail.com).

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About me :)

Submitted by kganihanova on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 11:38pm

Hey I'm Kamila and I'm from Central Jersey. I enjoy swimming, crocheting, and drinking copious amounts of caffeine. I'm uzbek/ new jerseyian. I honestly don't know sometimes, my heritage is from uzbekistan but my childhood occured in new jersey and all my memories come from there. Its just really complicated. I'm still growing and developing as a person but I"m okay with that, I hope I grow for the rest of my life. I want to be a journalist and lawyer. I am currently a freelance copy editor, writer, and journalist. I'll probably think of more after I post this but this is off the top of my head, everything that's noteworthy about myself.

The Breaking Project: Workbook

(photo: Alice Lesnick)

 

You can use these workbook pieces to think through and (p)re-visit the Breaking pieces. They provide ideas of ways to catalyze your and/or your students' own writing, creating/artmaking, and breaking . . . and/or to offer writers/artists feedback on their work/enter into dialogue with them.

You may also submit new prompts, catalyzing agents, queries, ways out, ways in . . .

Breaking Prompts

General Breaking Prompts

General entry questions, quotes, and provocations for beginning disruption -- please feel to add to these.   Their purpose is to invite visions and revisions -- re-mappings, new or dissolved boundaries, sudden illuminations. . .   They aim to help create meaning, dialogue, new fragments and new [re]compositions.

 

Piece-Specific Breaking Prompts

Click on a given link below to find--and if you like, add--prompts for further writing, thinking, and creating that take-off from a specific piece. 

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A Little About Me ^_^

Submitted by LittleItaly on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 11:14pm

Hi, I am 4' 11'' and I am a mixture of many different nationalities. I am Catholic and consider myself a bourgeoise. (Someone from middle class) I love volunteering, music, Italiano, sports, reading, and hanging out with friends.  Below are my two favorites quotes that I really connect to and are mantras that I really like to follow and reflect on:

The Breaking Project: Contents

(photo: Alice Lesnick)

Artwork

untitled, Elizabeth Catanese

4-Panel Image Sequence, Elizabeth Catanese

Hungry Ghosts, Jody Cohen

Essays

Learning from the Past of Fear, Ivana Evans

I Break A Lot, Wil Franklin

Learning from Extinctions . . . and Life, Paul Grobstein

How Not to Hassle the Unconscious, Paul Grobstein, Laura Cyckowski, and Alice Lesnick

4-Panel Image Sequence

Elizabeth Catanese

"It's about finding a whole and releasing a hole. Breaking happens first."

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View accompanying Workbook page

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HI FRIENDS

Submitted by gfeliz on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 10:11pm

Hello everyone!

 

My name is Genesis Feliz and I’m not quite sure where I’m from exactly. That may sound weird but I never have an exact answer to the question; “Where are you from?” I feel as though that can be interpreted many ways-- and in my case, it is interpreted 11 different ways. My father is in the Navy and I have moved almost every 2 years (or less, in some cases!) to a different state. 

 

I was born in the Bronx, New York but I do not claim that to be my “home.” From New York I moved to Atlanta, Georgia to Norfolk, Virginia to Pax River, Maryland to Seattle, Washington to Chesapeake, Virginia to Ceiba, Puerto Rico to Boston, Massachusetts to Jacksonville, Florida to Chapel Hill, North Carolina and finally, Hatboro, Pennsylvania. The place that I actually lived in for more than 2 years was Jacksonville, Florida and then Hatboro, Pennsylvania (for all 4 years of high school.) I like to claim Florida as my “home” because all of my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. live there. My father and brother also live in Tampa, Florida (my dad works at the MacDill Airforce Base in Tampa) so for me, home is in Florida. 

 

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Women's Rights in Traditional Cultures

Submitted by rachelr on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 9:51pm

In class we were discussing some global progress (or lack thereof) on not only women's rights but gender rights in general. When I was in high school we had a Maasai warrior who was a tribal leader visit. He brought his sword and demonstrated how he would hide in the bushes and jump out to kill the lions and how those hunts were a traditional right of passage for young boys becoming men. His reason for coming to the U.S. was to spread the word about female genital mutation. For young girls that is their right of passage before they get married. Often it is done in large groups and the blade are not cleaned in between, and nothing is sterilized. He spoke to us about the importance of cultural tradition to the Maasai but also his understanding of the health risks to female.

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