Interaction in Isolation You can’t have missed the rainbow windows that are in almost every home window, supporting key workers. But, have you noticed anything else STRANGE? We found these in the Enchanted Woods. A note asked us to count the number of eyes we found. I’m not sure if we got them all. We found 31 eyes. In the woods and park near us we have come across many ways that people are finding to interact during isolation. The human spirit, needs connections to other people. At this time people are finding ways to support each other and send the message: YOU ARE NOT ALONE. To keep my children amused we painted monster stones. We hid the monsters in the woods. We wrote their names on the back asking the finder to take care of the monster. What have you seen on your travels? Have you found a way to interact with your local community? The last slides have mainly demonstrated how parents are keeping children occupied and engaged at this time. • What about your age group? Have you seen anything that young adults are doing? • How can we use art at this time to engage, make a mark, send a message? • Many artists make ’Public Art’ (Site-specific art) or ‘Street Art’, that is made for a public space for people to engage with. • Taking art out of the gallery and into the public domain, encourages people who don’t normally visit galleries to have an interaction and opinion about the artwork. Some other things I’ve noticed on my walks… Strange structures & den building Mysterious oblongs cut out of trees. A secret symbol? My favorite find so far. A beautiful prism, reflecting the colours of the rainbow as the light strikes it. You may have come across ‘Public Art’ in the past. • Another Place by Antony Gormley Or Social Distancing? You will have certainly have heard of ‘Street Art’. A Banksy mural has been given a coronavirus update Task: What can you do? How can it fit with your project proposal? Remember Richard Long’s ‘A Line Made by Walking’? 1. Start by mind-mapping ideas: Post your ideas on your group page. You can do it on your own, with your family, a friend or another member of the class (observing social distancing of course). It can be fun or serious. It can be simple or complicated. It could be over an hour/day/week/fortnight Task 2: How will you record/document your work? • Photography? • Maps? • Notes? • Video? Time-lapse? • Drawing? • What else? • Audio? Sound waves? Show your recording process on the group channel. You know I love a post-it note! Task 3: Research. What artist/s will you connect your work to? Who inspired you? Create a research page of all the sources/artists you have looked at. Choose two artists to analyse and compare. Slinkachu JON HARVEY If I see your ideas page I will be able to recommend artists. Have fun!
