So i went home this weekend and i had two five and a half hour bus rides to think about this project. I decided to do something with the pen because i don't really know how i would work with sound. i started thinking about doing a drawing that only a pen could do. i tried to think about the physical elements of a ball point pen that make it different than a pencil. At first i thought about the width of the line a pen draws and how it's more or less the same every time. i thought about drawing pictures with a pen and showing the width but then i thought a drawing would distract you from seeing the important part which is the uniform line thickness so i thought about drawing a bunch of lines. I decided that was a bad idea because you can make different thickness of lines and i just wasn't satisfied with the idea. then i thought about how the intensity of the line is mostly the same. i thought of some situations i could draw to show that but once again i wasn't satisfied.
then i came to a conclusion: not only does a pen have a certain amount of ink which limits what you can draw but also, unlike a pencil, you never have to sharpen it so in theory you could use up the whole pen without ever lifting it off the paper. i decided to draw a drawing using the whole pen without ever lifting it off the paper. sort of in the spirit of the andy warhol videos.