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4.302 introduces students to a wide variety of artistic disciplines, including sculpting, wood working, print making, and welding. All of these are taught in short demos to give students different perspectives on how to approach making art. Students are given one assignment for the entire semester to "create something, anything" and are given free range in their approach to this prompt.
For this project I made the perfect fountain. When I presented this piece, I turned on the fountain I had constructed and placed a cardboard box over it. While I gave my presentation, my audience could hear the water running, so that when I told them that the perfect fountain was under that box, they created an image in their minds of what that fountain must be. If everyone had actually seen my fountain, they wouldn't have thought it was perfect at all. Maybe their ideal fountains were more round or maybe theirs had less glue running down the sides, because perfection is an entirely relative concept. After listening to my professor asking me to make something perfect the entire semester, I realized that the only way to actually do so, was to let my audience create that perfect object themselves.