This year’s inquiry has two focuses: celebrating being outdoors by activating a space with art and bridging the gap imposed between us.
The result is a collaborative mural project in an already wonderful outdoor space built as an outdoor classroom / amphitheatre.
Our springboard was Ernst Haeckel, the highly influential scientist and artist, and his elegant and mysterious century-old illustrations of natural forms.
Students connected and shared ideas with students from other cohorts through the creation of collaborative designs. The original drawings were built on from week to week, and were expanded, elaborated, dissected, combined, rearranged and re-imagined into stories. Fundamental design principles were explored with an emphasis on movement, reaching out of the frame and creating connections between elements that build into visual stories.
Despite being apart, there were still ways to think, create and produce something substantial and inspiring. TOGETHER.
