visibility and invisibility

We have been working with the story of the Little Sea Hare and I’ve been thinking about visibility and invisibility, exploring ways of blending in chameleon-like and using camouflage – mimicking and overlaying patterns from the environment, explored in 2 dimensions via layering with rubbing techniques
Students began this work by making and layering rubbings, focusing on shapes from their photos from Mount Stewart and working intuitively with colours and inserting silhouettes of their avatars.
Last Monday I read the story while students listened with instructions to close their eyes and create the images in their imagination. We also looked at David Hockney’s illustrations for the story. We will continue to discuss ideas from the story and tease out ideas and themes which will feed into our making/drawing.

We are noticing that our time together at 2 hours a week is very intensive work with artist/student and we need to build in some time for teacher to develop ideas with the students. This week the session will begin with Ms Davey and students working together to allow for a catch up with materials and progress with activity and extenuation of ideas.

It was useful to have an observer last week when our researcher was an invisible presence online.

Meantime I have been looking at fashion! Inspired by Burberry response to Henry Moore and also works of artist costume maker Nick Cave.