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===DREAMS IN SPACE, BLINDFOLDED AND BOUNDLESS - A workshop by: Hamish John Appleby=== | ===DREAMS IN SPACE, BLINDFOLDED AND BOUNDLESS - A workshop by: Hamish John Appleby=== | ||
THE PROCESS | THE PROCESS ''''“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.'''' | ||
WHERE AND WHAT | 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. | ||
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. | |||
A GREAT QUOTE | A GREAT QUOTE “I shut my eyes in order to see”. | ||
--Paul Gauguin | --Paul Gauguin | ||
LOCATION | LOCATION Waldorf Schüle Weimar | ||
Waldorf Schüle Weimar | |||
AFTER LONG ADMINISTRATIVE | 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. | ||
COMPROMISES | 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' | ||
THAT STRUCTURE WORD | 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... | ||
IN TO IT | 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… | ||
FOLLOW UP | 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… | ||
MORE TO COME | 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… | ||
FINE PRINT | 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… | ||
CHECK OUT THE FIRST IMAGES! | CHECK OUT THE FIRST IMAGES! | ||