Third Week of Lessons

Two groups split the time during the third week of presenting our Theme-Based Lessons.  John and Sam presented their lesson titled "A Shadow of What It Once Was" and focused on resources and objects. We had to explore the resources that make up an object we can not live without, and from our research create a sculpture that will create a visual shadow display of a resource.  The artists they showed, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, are two British artists whose work I am a fan of.  I saw their shadow sculptures in a gallery when I was in London, and I remember being drawn to the work because of the trash they use.  It seems crazy to think that the trash can cast such a different visual shadow on the wall in silhouettes of people or buildings.  The second group to go was Jackie and Natalie, whose lesson "The Reel Me" focused on how different images get viewers to look at them and where the power lies in the gaze.  We then watched a short video and had to focus on non-verbal cues of the characters, such as color and body language.  We began a project that would in reality take a few classes to complete, but everyone was well engaged in the planning stage.  We had to pick an alter ego of ourselves and create a storyboard to eventually turn into a movie focusing on non-verbal cues to explore this side of ourselves.  I thought this lesson was great, and Natalie and Jackie did a very good job of role playing and laying out the plan for the rest of the lesson even though we would not actually complete it.