A Body of Work
2018
2018
Step 1: Build the thing
Step 2: Write an explanation
Instructions on creating a sculpture like this:
Phase I:
1. Take music classes as if you are a professional 2. Recognize the fact that you suck 3. Listen to the recording of your lessons 4. Keep calm and go practice 5. Embrace your inability to achieve your goals 6. Maybe cry a little bit 7. Say “fuck this shit” 8. Look into the broken mirror that happen to be there 9. Keep calm and continue to practice 10. Try to suck less |
Phase II:
1. Sit in your studio on a dreary night and do nothing 2. Doodle, eat a Pringle, and mess with clay 3. Make miniatures to entertain yourself 4. Wait for 7 months and do a wide variety of crap 5. Decide to build a statue version of the miniatures 6. Collect cardboard boxes from your online shopping 7. Cut, glue and try not to kill yourself in the studio 8. Put on pantyhose for your figure and dance with it 9. Add whatever finish you want (metallic glitter is a plus) 10. Claim that you found it from the bottom of the ocean |
Step 3: Build a triptych piece and write another explanation
Note: The visual form of the triptych piece is inspired by “The Mocking of Christ” (1440 - 1441) by Fra Angelico and his assistants in the Convent of San Marco, Florence.
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The imagery in the triptych piece is my literal interpretation of what my voice teachers have told me in class. They sometimes use metaphors to help me move the air freely, lift the soft palate, achieve legato, etc. Their metaphors include but are not limited to:
-Biting an apple -Tongue burned by hot French fries -Soprano falling off a staircase -Banana coming out of forehead -Skating and jumping while skating -Seeing fireworks -Ascending by following the wind -Making noodles -Peeling the shell of crab legs -Mind eye coming from the back of the head -Riding on the roller coaster -Finish the violin bow in one bow -Throwing up high notes -Flowers blossoming from your head -Water boiling -Face falling off the face -Feeling genuinely excited from within |
Step 4: Do a fake concert wholeheartedly with the mannequin
Program
By Strauss - George Gershwin (1898 –1937) Silent Noon - Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1958) I Can’t Wait - David Sisco (b. 1975) Au bord de l’eau - Gabriel Fauré (1845 –1924) Someone Like You (from Jekyll and Hyde) - Frank Wildhorn (b.1959) To Keep My Love Alive - Richard Rogers (1902 – 1979) The Night Was Alive (from Titanic: The Musical) - Maury Yeston (b. 1945) When I Have Sung My Songs - Earnest Charles (1895 –1984) Laudamus te (from Mass no. 18 in C minor) - W.A. Mozart (1756 – 1791) Gibberish Musique Concrète Suite - Martha Poot Lutin (b. 4932 BC)
Pieces with friends |
Program Notes
Martha Poot Lutin has been studying voice since 3561 BC. She has a long life because she learned how to hold a very long breath from voice lessons. She had her debut in the 808 Woodshop, Brookline, MA in May 2017. She hopes to expand her stage to Pluto and bring laughter to the infinity and beyond. Martha is also the founder of Not Anywhere Association™and Wendia Lifelong Art Academy, where she composed the Academy Chant which the students there recite 946 times every morning: “Everywhere outside of my studio is my studio.” A Body of Work was born in February 2018. He is going to get married with her birth mother Martha Poot Lutin in May 2021. He is always in a state of wanting to get somewhere yet in vain. That’s why he’s stuck on a pole. It hurts. But he’s optimistic and always wears a smile. The idea of the recital came from the fact that Martha always wants to find meaning in everything she does. Why practice? Why make work? Why do anything if you are not happy when doing it? Why live at all? Martha Poot Lutin and A Body of Work would like to thank everyone who is willing to come to this concert, even though without a clue of what is going on. Here’s a telegraph from Martha: “Beep beep! You are here probably because you think we are friends. Well guess what… I think so, too! We have all come a long way to be here. It is fate that brought us together. So let’s enjoy our shared presence in this place, for more than just a little while.” |
And here's the video:
Step 5: Put a GoPro on the nose of the mannequin and walk him around Boston