Sorted Books / The Art Assignment

The Art Assignment is a show on youtube which meets with all sorts of different artists. These artists have all created some sort of assignment. For this art assignment the artist is Nina Katchadourian and the assignemnt is called sorted books. You can watch the video here(click here) if you want to but here are the steps to complete this assignment:
1. Choose a person you know or would like to get to know better
2. Take a look at/through their library
3. Make three stacks of books to develop a portrait of this person
I chose to get to know my awesome mom a bit better by creating a portrait of her from the books in her library. Now these are of course in Danish but I will do my very best at translating them for you.

Happiness is a choice

Therefore

Do it now!

Create your future

Healthy and beautiful

A great and marvelous work

The shadows of the night

The shadows' ocean

But greatest of all

Hope for the future

If you could see me now

The springflower

Under a shining sun

With the heart in the right place

To the bitter end

I personally think that The Art Assignment is great! It helps me expand my idea of what art is, it teaches me about new artists and I get to be involved and actually make something myself.