First Class

Paper Project:
White paper- grainy, translucent, smooth, weave like pattern, white with subtle gray, soft, smooth, light weight, thin, flexibility, sharp edge, pointy corners
- it has the ability to make sound
- smells like a library, starch, bleachy
- tastes salty and melts

As an artist, you bring your own experience to the various mediums. Children are natural investigators with their own senses. We lodge the richness of the medium to a simple and single way.

Ways to change paper:
- fold, bend, refold, reshape. crumble, twist, shred, cut
- by tearing along the edges, we meander the edge, use body parts, tear and weave, and make shapes by folding and tearing, shred, poke holes, create various shapes on the paper...becomes endless
- but at the same time, must know our limits of the material.

Using 2 papers:
- we are engaging in conversation between the 2 papers.
- physionomic perception: seeing objects as a representation of something you're familiar with.
-- reading into something and responding to that situation.

Creation of 2 separate pieces of paper to form into one shape. Paper 1: I folded into different parts and intersected in a way that would be able to hold the other piece of paper. Paper 2: I shredded the ends because of the interesting form it started to created then twisted one side of the paper that was shredded. Outcome: It started to look like octupus tentacles. =)

Application:
1. Exploring opens up their conscious of what they are learning.
2. Combine limited amount of options with choices
3. Choose among possibilities where guidelines help to promote even more creativity.