We’re all in the joke mood at the moment, that is if you are doing an assignment for Art of the MOOC. It has been a real battle for me to think of a joke related to a social issue or a social movement. My attempts just sounded so silly, but after going on line to find some, I thought mine were not that bad after all…
So how about:
When is a thinking person’s coal mine empty? When it’s mindful.
When can coal see? When it’s fossilised.
Then I thought, if I am making paint from coal (which was my intention), to sequester it, for example, I need a link to paint and pigment. Luckily, my brain caught on, and I came up with using charcoal (which is also carbon). Now, as there is a good possibility that prehistoric man also used charcoal to paint or draw with, aka cave paintings, I could somehow make a joke that linked carbon, pigment and paint. I do have some coal left over from when we had a coal fire (oops, but we only used it once and we had to travel 100 k to buy the coal)… but the charcoal came from the woodturning stove and the tree came from the garden and it did seem a little more environmentally appropriate.
So my joke for Art of the MOOC was: Was there a prehistoric carbon footprint? No, they used their hands…
I made a video of the paint making process which can be found on my Facebook page. www.facebook.com/celia.wilson.56 It is also on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/147520835, and I have a link to Twitter…
Celia Wilson 