Catherine D. Yates
- Take time to choose an object that you can hold in your hand, that you are willing to spend time with, which you are curious about or that you enjoy.
- Observe your object using your 5 senses.
- Analyze your object.
- Observe your object.
- Collect data. It can also be helpful to draw your object to understand it. What is touchable? What is untouchable? What does it take to make this object? Could you make this object yourself?
Here is an example of writing about a chosen object in representative lines:
Family origin. Arrived by mail ‘out of the blue’. Headed to Walgreens in East Haven to collect it on Halloween night. Heavy. Unexpected. Grandmother’s never seen before China. Shipped by way of Vancouver, Washington. Probably stored in Washington, DC. Following the next to each other deaths of two of my brothers and before the last one died a year later, I received a box of porcelain. I was in a mental fog at the time. My Dad bought us a house. I had just signed up with New Haven Public Schools, a job I was ‘not made for’, Porcelain is white with ‘warranted gold coin’, Textured, embossed with a floral pattern, all in white. I could make a rubbing of it. The color of white is pretty, the color of the gold coin is also pretty, one might say ‘feminine’ or ‘subtle’ ‘simple’’ ‘cheerful’ ‘understandable. Made in the USA. Warranted Gold Coin. Rose Point.
