Lauren Tokash - Final Project (Performing Design)

Animal Art

What You'll Need...

• Bristol Paper, whatever size fits the bowl (I have used 9x12)
• Spray bottle of water
• Artists' tape
• Type of food your animal consumes
• Dish/bowl for food
• Your pet!

Specifically for my animals, the horses, Nugget and Keebler, will be using...

• Tribute Equine Grain
• Liquid Aloe Vera (to help with stomach ulcers)
• Various treats such as carrots and peppermints
• A chance for alfalfa hay to get into their dish

The pigs, Leonard and Prince, will be receiving...

• Mazuri Mini Pig Feed

Directions for Horses

1. Place bristol paper in grain dishes, tape down corners.
2. Spray the paper with water in hopes the feed will pick up better on the paper. We chose bristol so the animals wouldn't destroy thinner paper.
3.  Give a scoop of grain for their afternoon feeding.
4. Add 1/2 cup of liquid Aloe Vera on top of the grain.
5. Let them question the paper at first then feast and slobber all over.
6. Let lesson students drop various treats in the dish throughout the day and let whatever pick up on the paper.
7. Feed again in the evening.
8. Gather the paper after the last feeding.

Directions for Pigs

1. Place bristol paper in ground feeders. Do not tape (they may eat it).
2. Spray paper with water.
3. Put a scoop of feed in each feeder. Separate feeders.
4. Take out paper as soon as they are done with morning meal. You may have to fight them for the paper.
5. Wait until evening feed, place new papers in ground feeders.
6. Spray paper with water.
7. Put another scoop in each feeder.
8. Gather paper once pigs are done eating.

The Pigs' feeders

One of the horse's feeders

Feeding the horses

Before

Nugget is a pretty clean eater.

Keebler is a bit messier.

Pigs will be...pigs.

In the picture above, the left pig is Prince, to the right is Leonard.

The aftermath...

Keebler

Nugget

At the beginning of the project, I was not sure of what I was going to be able to do as I feel that some of my daily “things” could not be recorded. Looking back, so much could have been done as I just really needed to push myself with my mind on what I can do. When I came up with the idea of rather than using myself as a performing project, but something else I dearly love and am with daily, I thought it was perfect. I used horses and their feed schedule as they are fed 2-3x a day. I specifically picked our farm’s lesson horses who encounter people who drop them treats, leading them to have a potential for more residue on the paper. When I made my material choice, I went with bristol as it is a bit thicker and the horses and pigs I knew would be a bit rough on it. I added the spray water so it would be a bit more flexible and hope for more texture and remains from their feed. I did not get results as I imagined. I thought it would be a bit more gross and soaked into the paper, but it just left some residue. I did though, get some unexpected texture such as folds, tears and crinkles. Yes, I did actually have to fight for a paper from the pigs. On the two papers from Leonard the pig, he has the same tear in the same spot which I thought was pretty cool. Overall, I thought this project was interesting and I would like to do it again in a different way.