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| ''''“The visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps” Carl Sagan, 1994.''''
| | ===DREAMS IN SPACE, BLINDFOLDED AND BOUNDLESS - A workshop by: Hamish John Appleby=== |
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| I am interested in the idea of running a creative workshop with the children from the International school in Weimar – where by, I give them a task to draw how they imagine space to be. This could be a fantastic opportunity for both myself and the children to engage in a workshop or kind of ‘mini project’ that they have probably never encountered before, with the outcome being a possible mini exhibition of drawings – or other creations.
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| | ''''“The visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps” Carl Sagan, 1994.'''' |
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| I will be speaking with the director of the school(Russell Marino) about my plans. I also like the idea of continuing this field of enquiry, because it allows more of a free way of working that would be interesting to me. | | WHERE AND WHAT |
| | I am currently running a creative workshop with the students from the Waldorf Schüle in Weimar – So far this has been a fantastic opportunity for both myself and the students(I hope) to engage in a workshop or kind of ‘mini project’ that they have probably never encountered before, with the outcome being a possible mini exhibition of drawings – or other creations. |
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| What effects do dreams have on children when they sleep at night? How might this shape their future? What if a child is inspired by my workshop and dreams about flying in space that night? This could also be integrated into the project as well. – and What an interesting way to record the dreams of children by influencing them in a positive way to maybe dream about being in space! There is the literal dream of wishing to be in space as well as the dreamt dream – it could be interesting to find out how the children deal with the information presented and to see what inspiration presents itself.
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| I imagine that the final outcome will take the form of a documented book. I would like to bring into this exploration my own photographic images. I would also like to continue working with still images, collecting and collating information, personal accounts, visceral metaphors and other materials too, for cohesion of this narrative. The continuation of finding stories, overlaid onto people’s personal accounts of dreams in space or dreams connected with space could be an idea that would allow for crossing both the innocence of youth and fantasy together with narration from differing age groups.
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| ===DREAMS IN SPACE - A workshop by: Hamish John Appleby===
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| | A GREAT QUOTE |
| | “I shut my eyes in order to see”. |
| --Paul Gauguin | | --Paul Gauguin |
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| Location: Waldorf Schüle Weimar
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| | | Waldorf Schüle Weimar |
| …and so finally, after much delay and organisation, I was finally given permission to begin the 'space' workshops, but not at the International School as was planned, but instead the Waldorf Schüle also here in Weimar.
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| A couple of compromises had to be made, one of them being that I was only given permission to work with older students, however the experience has been so far really good and the impressions and comments I have been given are that the workshops have been really inspirational and 'eye opening'
| | AFTER LONG ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES |
| | …and so finally, after much delay and organisation, I was finally given permission to begin the 'space' workshops, but not at the International School as was planned, but instead the Waldorf Schüle also here in Weimar. |
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| The structure of the workshops have also had to have been condensed as class time is both precious and it has been quite a challenge to even organise the time that I have been given due to the all the other time constrains of both overseeing teachers, class times and students etc... Therefore, I will continue to update the progress as it happens...
| | COMPROMISES |
| | A couple of compromises had to be made, one of them being that I was only given permission to work with older students, however the experience has been so far really good and the impressions and comments I have been given are that the workshops have been really inspirational and 'eye opening' |
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| The first assignment we have worked on in this series of workshops is exploring the idea of inner space and more succinctly the idea of boundlessness. Through meditation and then silent drawing with blindfolds, the participants have been able to explore a new type of space and one that has previously been undiscovered. The results of the drawing thus far have been both remarkable and even outstanding - as the participants spend 28 minutes of their life in this brave new world of inner space… | | THAT STRUCTURE WORD |
| | The structure of the workshops have also had to have been condensed as class time is both precious and it has been quite a challenge to even organise the time that I have been given due to the all the other time constrains of both overseeing teachers, class times and students etc... Therefore, I will continue to update the progress as it happens... |
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| The follow-up group discussions have also been interesting, with students talking about how they felt and how their approach to this type of visual communication was altered. We have also looked at the artist - Yves Klein's idea of the void and how that relates to this process on the idea of infinite space… | | IN TO IT |
| | The first assignment we have worked on in this series of workshops is exploring the idea of inner space and more succinctly the idea of boundlessness. Through meditation and then silent drawing with blindfolds, the participants have been able to explore a new type of space and one that has previously been undiscovered. The results of the drawing thus far have been both remarkable and even outstanding - as the participants spend 28 minutes of their life in this brave new world of inner space… |
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| Workshop classes will continue over the next couple of weeks with more ideas - one of which will be the execution of a communal blindfold Action Painting/Drawing…
| | FOLLOW UP |
| | The follow-up group discussions have also been interesting, with students talking about how they felt and how their approach to this type of visual communication was altered. We have also looked at the artist - Yves Klein's idea of the void and how that relates to this process on the idea of infinite space… |
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| For reasons of privacy, I have only been able to upload images that focus on the work, avoiding showing people's faces, but I am hoping to get permission to include more images soon…
| | MORE TO COME |
| | Workshop classes will continue over the next couple of weeks with more ideas - one of which will be the execution of a communal blindfold Action Painting/Drawing… |
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| | FINE PRINT |
| | For reasons of privacy, I have only been able to upload images that focus on the work, avoiding showing people's faces, but I am hoping to get permission to include more images soon… |
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| | CHECK OUT THE FIRST IMAGES! |
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