PROCESS: select an image, event, figure, object, situation, concept
Categorize it according to a "stayed" position, à la Cartier-Bresson's decisive moment, or even in terms of a definition, "It is THIS".
The artwork you make is an 'undoing' of this instance, of this definition. It is to provide the layering and the expanded view, or the exploded view of the instance. See "Things Come Apart" link in side-column.
Materials: Open
Consider: the frame of reference in which we are to observe the work in its final form
I'll be looking at the wider context with which the work is displayed: the state of the wall, the floor, the plinth etc. Clean them and have us (your viewers) focus on what it is you are saying with your work!
further examples:
Andreas Johansson, Sweden
Collete Fu, USA
Andreas Johnasson: photograph as shown in installation
Installation view (not the clean and purposeful room!)
Opposiing view (background props of photographs):
Colette Fu