Community Project
Todos éramos Animales, éramos Tierra
Along with children / adolescents from the community, I’ll make a panoramic painting whose main theme is the myth of the landscape. The objective aims to develop the construction of the landscape as the scene of daily life, as well as personal mythologies. The main idea is to paint chromatically in gray, starting from the idea of gray as a color that reveals and hides other colors. It is a way of creating shadows.
In the first session, the dynamic will consist of the participants writing on a sheet of paper, a story or a story that – for personal consideration – is related to some supernatural or extraordinary aspect of the place. Likewise, that it has been part of the oral tradition of the community. Depending on each story, they will be recommended to emphasize some plastic-visual element: color, shape, light, etc. In order to cause a pictorial thought in the process to develop sensitivity in the contemplation of the environment.
Subsequently, an exchange of the stories will be done at random. Each participant will be invited to generate an interpretation of the writing through a drawing or sketch. The idea with this activity is that a personal imaginary can be created through collective symbolism.
These drawings will be the basis for constructing the composition of a landscape in a school or on the street, through the interaction and continuous rupture between aesthetic representation, painting as a tool and the street as a support. In this way, the landscape not only conforms an idea about “the natural”, it is also revealed as a community-built reality.
Along with children / adolescents from the community, I’ll make a panoramic painting whose main theme is the myth of the landscape. The objective aims to develop the construction of the landscape as the scene of daily life, as well as personal mythologies. The main idea is to paint chromatically in gray, starting from the idea of gray as a color that reveals and hides other colors. It is a way of creating shadows.
In the first session, the dynamic will consist of the participants writing on a sheet of paper, a story or a story that – for personal consideration – is related to some supernatural or extraordinary aspect of the place. Likewise, that it has been part of the oral tradition of the community. Depending on each story, they will be recommended to emphasize some plastic-visual element: color, shape, light, etc. In order to cause a pictorial thought in the process to develop sensitivity in the contemplation of the environment.
Subsequently, an exchange of the stories will be done at random. Each participant will be invited to generate an interpretation of the writing through a drawing or sketch. The idea with this activity is that a personal imaginary can be created through collective symbolism.
These drawings will be the basis for constructing the composition of a landscape in a school or on the street, through the interaction and continuous rupture between aesthetic representation, painting as a tool and the street as a support. In this way, the landscape not only conforms an idea about “the natural”, it is also revealed as a community-built reality.
