Consider how you can shoot footage of any object in a way that allows that object to be a metaphor (and for this project a portrait) of something entirely different.
Towards the end of class break, we were having an informal discussion about how to define art. What is art? Our classmate, David, brought up seeing a pile of candy in a museum and being admonished by the guard when he went to take a piece. He brought this up considering how blurry the lines can be between art and other things and how we are supposed to understand. David was talking about a work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres and the work happens (appropriately enough for our first project) to be a portrait. And he was SUPPOSED to take the candy. Here’s a short video about the work “Untitled” (Portrait of Ross).