Community Project
Máscaras Zoomorfas – Telesecundaria de El Venado
Koba worked with the children of the Venado telesecundaria. The idea of the project was to create masks with zoomorphic characters to create awareness of the biodiversity of their community and create empathy between children and living beings with whom they cohabit.
The first session served to present the project, talk about the different cultural uses of masks and animals that exist in the coastal ecosystem. Each child chose an animal of their choice and made three drawings, a face in front and in profile, to the animal of their choice and the final design of the mask (human face with the animal as a decorative aspect). The next session was dedicated to the making of masks using paper mache. During the last sessions the masks were painted.
The designs of the masks, their shape, size and pictorial decoration was entirely the children’s decision, trying to exploit their creativity.
Koba worked with the children of the Venado telesecundaria. The idea of the project was to create masks with zoomorphic characters to create awareness of the biodiversity of their community and create empathy between children and living beings with whom they cohabit.
The first session served to present the project, talk about the different cultural uses of masks and animals that exist in the coastal ecosystem. Each child chose an animal of their choice and made three drawings, a face in front and in profile, to the animal of their choice and the final design of the mask (human face with the animal as a decorative aspect). The next session was dedicated to the making of masks using paper mache. During the last sessions the masks were painted.
The designs of the masks, their shape, size and pictorial decoration was entirely the children’s decision, trying to exploit their creativity.
