Instructions

1. Encounter the spectacle (this will be easy if not automatic).1) Search for readymades.

2. Apprehend your situation.What is guiding your search? Note your mood.

3. Pattern your contour.Gather relevant materials that you think will assist you in expressing your mood. Repetitions and aesthetic resemblances of shared situations are key.

4. Deform readymades to establish proportional analogies.This is your diagram. Express your situation without the clarity of mimetic relationships. How you demonstrate your situational relationship to other objects will show that your mood is distributed across many objects. Think of your “self” dispersed like a collage in the spectacle. Reassemble your dispersed self without forming an organic unity.

5. Test your diagram.The idea behind the diagram is that whatever passes through your diagram will receive your affective view of the world. For instance, Warhol’s diagram might be the x-ray quality and seriality--utter banality.

6. Articulate your aesthetic filter of the world. The diagram will allow you to express the unintelligible. A Bacon painting means much more than “pain”; his paintings instantly communicate a world outside the literate definition. This was Bacon’s desire: to express this situation in the world. Express your situation.