Community Project
“Everything that is born necessarily comes from a cause, since without a cause nothing can have an origin” – Platon
MEMORIES OF A VESTIGE:
The pieces that were created through reflection and analysis were based on the following premises: What is a vestige? How does it hold up over time? And how is a memory generated, not only material but also mental, from memories and experiences that shape our history and humanity?
The students from Chila worked on an exploration based on drawing for five sessions, teaching them the different possibilities and processes of a drawing, especially in terms of times and possibilities that the line has as a potentiator. In each session this exploration was carried out starting from the question: What is a drawing?
During the third session, an exercise was carried out on the vestige. Starting from a stone, the young people were able to choose their own vestige from the entire school and from different places within their environment. They intervened with graphite dust from the crystalline graphite mine of San Francisco Telixtlahuaca, Oaxaca. Thanks to this process we generate an action once we have the intervened object to return it to the point of its extraction, thus marking a symbolic and reflective load on the memory.
In the last meeting, the students were part of an open studio where they participated in the final piece of the research project. When choosing by size the selection of figures that were placed in the work for the artist’s log. The boys learned the value of drawing, not only the importance of the support but also from the mind how to draw.
This process creates a cycle of time, where microsculptures materialize drawing, memory and strokes, promoting awareness and contemplation of where the drawing originates. Is it from conscious memory or something more intuitive?
MEMORIES OF A VESTIGE:
The pieces that were created through reflection and analysis were based on the following premises: What is a vestige? How does it hold up over time? And how is a memory generated, not only material but also mental, from memories and experiences that shape our history and humanity?
The students from Chila worked on an exploration based on drawing for five sessions, teaching them the different possibilities and processes of a drawing, especially in terms of times and possibilities that the line has as a potentiator. In each session this exploration was carried out starting from the question: What is a drawing?
During the third session, an exercise was carried out on the vestige. Starting from a stone, the young people were able to choose their own vestige from the entire school and from different places within their environment. They intervened with graphite dust from the crystalline graphite mine of San Francisco Telixtlahuaca, Oaxaca. Thanks to this process we generate an action once we have the intervened object to return it to the point of its extraction, thus marking a symbolic and reflective load on the memory.
In the last meeting, the students were part of an open studio where they participated in the final piece of the research project. When choosing by size the selection of figures that were placed in the work for the artist’s log. The boys learned the value of drawing, not only the importance of the support but also from the mind how to draw.
This process creates a cycle of time, where microsculptures materialize drawing, memory and strokes, promoting awareness and contemplation of where the drawing originates. Is it from conscious memory or something more intuitive?
