imperative

wandering through my archives, i found "IMPERATIVE," a brief text i'd written for the 2004 OCAD student handbook. the epigraph is from a pac-mondrian t-shirt. i forgot i'd written this! so, in honour of neil hennessy's brief visit, here's the text.

IMPERATIVE

“Let’s play art!!!” - Prize Budget for Boys

Act. Animate. Apply. Aspire. Assert. Attend. Bind. Blow. Blur. Break. Breathe. Build. Burn. Carouse. Carve. Cast. Challenge. Chisel. Choose. Climax. Critique. Code. Collaborate. Collage. Collate. Collect. Comment. Compose. Conclude. Conduct. Conspire. Continue. Convey. Convince. Cook. Copy. Create. Cull. Cut. Dance. Define. Delete. Demonstrate. Derive. Describe. Design. Destruct. Develop. Diffuse. Direct. Discover. Display. Dissect. Distort. Do. Draft. Draw. Dress. Dye. Edit. Elicit. Emboss. Engrave. Erase. Etch. Evoke. Examine. Execute. Exhibit. Experience. Experiment. Explore. Express. Extrude. Fill. Film. Filter. Find. Focus. Form. Frame. Gather. Give. Glue. Hang. Hew. Illuminate. Innovate. Insert. Install. Interact. Interpret. Introduce. Invite. Iron. Jump. Knit. Layer. Learn. Light. Listen. Make. Manage. Map. Measure. Melt. Mimic. Mix. Model. Mold. Move. Nail. Narrate. Note. Operate. Opine. Organize. Paint. Parody. Participate. Perform. Persevere. Perspire. Pinch. Pixelate. Photocopy. Photograph. Play. Plié. Point. Portray. Poster. Pound. Practice. Print. Produce. Promote. Proofread. Protest. Provoke. Publish. Qualify. Read. Rehearse. Remove. Render. Repeat. Respond. Restore. Rewind. Risk. Rock. Roll. Sand. Screen. Sculpt. Shake. Shape. Sharpen. Shoot. Select. Sew. Share. Shuffle. Sing. Sketch. Spatter. Speak. Spin. Spray. Stipple. Stitch. Strike. Strum. Study. Suggest. Tap. Teach. Tear. Tell. Think. Trace. Translate. Trim. Typeset. Utter. View. Watch. Water. Weave. Whittle. Work. Workshop. Write.