We were a bit late launching Day One…Adrian had some technical issues his end unavoidable! Once we started and the sound and video tweaked things went very smoothly and all very excited!
We started by showing some pictures of my studio and its location. We talked about the difference between urban and rural. I talked about the sounds I hear in the mornings when I wake up the birdsong and the animals. Junior and Senior infants talked about the sounds that they hear. There was a lot of crying babies! My studio is isolated where they live they are surrounded by houses….
We then decided to start our journey together.. I wanted to choose a medium that would be appealing to the target age group that would trigger the concept of imagined journeys and also a medium that could physically connect with my studio and the school. So some of the bubbles made their way to my space. The bubbles are temporary but the memory of making the bubbles and the imagined journeys will inspire permanent pieces. When I make my own work I like action, movement and being physical with the medium I choose to work with.
Bubbles How do we make bubbles? What happens when we blow bubbles?
they start to blow away they start to pop bubbles are soft
The class went outside and blew bubbles! The action of making bubbles together in itself is a collaborative work. We started our bubble journey.
We came back into the class room and talked about our bubble journeys.
Jolene bubbles went to America and saw the flag
Calum’s bubble went to Old Trafford
Lynn’s bubble went to France and saw Disneyland
Shane’s bubble saw a match – man united won!
Jessica’s bubble went to America too
Kevin’s went to his house and saw a chair and his telly
Sean’s went to space
Kevin’s went to Germany
Grace’s went to America
Eddie’s to the country
Jame’s wanted the bubbles to go to heaven
Josh’s went o to his house
They blew the bubbles so hard that the bubbles came into my studio…Junior and Senior infants were amazed to see the bubbles floating by and landing on my head!
Virtually the bubbles traveled…I would like to work on this concept further..
We drew a picture of the place where our bubbles travelled to using chalk pastels, soft like bubbles on A3 Paper.
