trionaryan's profile
My Posts
imagination and memory | Across the Border/Bridging the Gap
2009-01-28
imagination and memory
After working with the aspect of memory through mapping, I want to look at imagination.
Imagination and memory seem to be closely related but in some schools of thought are seen as polar opposites. It is said, that our imagination is composed of what we already know - just arranged differently. We have started to look upwards after spending time looking at mapping things, that are on the ground. I have introduced Da Vinci here, because I wanted to open the idea and discussion that Art can be behind a lot of things in our world and not just painting.
It is the art of looking, what we have and how it can become something else. We did a still life drawing, first of some household objects, a bulb, a spoon... and then started drawing flying machines in a style adopted from Da Vinci.
Lovely drawings, strange shapes, impossible to fly - but it doesn`t matter. I will introduce drawing with wire, where we will trace over the original drawings, lift them off the page so to speak, with a wire frame. I think it might be an interesting way to literally move from the 2-dimensional plane into 3-dimensional. There seems to be a strong desire to "make" among the students and as we have been working with drawing, collage, text and film it seems a natural step.
I too am keen to construct. Another way of moving from the page, is by asking the students to create islands. We have looked at the earth as a globe and other planets and we will now create our own planets/ globes. The continents/islands/mountains/rivers etc we will then have to transfer onto the spherical shapes / globes, that we have constructed. It is very similar to a flattened out world map, which we are used to seeing and then being made into the shape it is.
It is funny that things get flattened out for us to be able to read them better...
So all in all, we are busy and space is limiting but other than that great fun.
No comments added