PlaySeeTell
PROJECT GOALS
During the first phase, PLAY, participants focused on exercises designed to push comfort zones and freeing themselves from the need to produce perfectly finished results. This phase involved the exploration of materials and drawing methods thus allowing the creative juices to flow. In the second phase, SEE, collectively produced work was organized in a creative pool from which students were welcomed to draw material from, to reflect and share their story regarding the entire experience. This reflection and execution of expressions concluded the last phase, TELL.
PLAY PROCESS
The above images provide a glimpse at some creative exploration during phase one, PLAY. The activities revolved around, sketching objects from observation and description, sketching motion as it happens, such as dancing, drawing portraits without looking at the paper, and using everyday objects to inspire the imagination to run wild.
SEE PROCESS
The images show collectively produced work and the initial execution of the participant's reflection. Students were allowed to use any of the produced drawings to effectively tell whatever they learned from the experience.
TELL
The illustrations above show the final execution of the project and my reflection of the entire experience. I produced the following text as part of the "Unfinished" artwork.
"Let's go back in time a few years ago to a summer afternoon.
What were you doing then?
You probably don't remember.
What did you do the day after that?
Was it something insignificant?
Like listening to the sound of a cricket chirping, wiping away a film of sweat from your forehead, the starry skies at night, the fireflies, the sound of life in a park, listening to that one song on repeat or gulping down a cold glass of water.
These bits and pieces of memories, similar to the chunks of expressions we create, have a story to tell.
Similarly, the seemingly unfinished, messed up, neglected parts of our imaginations might have more to say than the result of our conscious efforts towards a flawless creation."
