(photo: Alice Lesnick)

This is a space for resources and links that connect with The Breaking Project. Please feel free to submit others.

Resources may be sources of inspiration, pedagogical groundwork, linked endeavors, community connections that allows the reader to glean a deeper understanding of your piece in particular and of our project as a whole.

Resources

Alice Lesnick's Resources

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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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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).

(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. 

(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

Elizabeth Catanese

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

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