5 Obstructions Response

I found it really amusing to watch two artists collaborate and feed off one another, and I actually found these two artists in particular to be very funny. What made this film so entertaining to me and different from other film screening I've watched was its combination of presenting the finished work and presenting the progress they went through to create it. I couldn't help but relate to the artists and the situation and compare it to my own way of working. I also find it helpful to assign myself certain guidelines or to decide to use certain methods and such before I even begin a piece. At first, however, I was not the one that had me work this way but it was also a fellow artist and my professor. Before one artist can rein free in creating the work the other artist gives not only rules but also something to start from, in this case the film The Perfect Human. I really liked this process because a blank canvas can be pretty intimidating and it gave the two some common grounds to start from and relate at least a little theirs train of thought. I think that this way of working forces the artist to problem solve therefore automatically causing creative thinking.