Continuation of Last Post and Paper Mache

Some projects created by classmates

There is an embodiment of tearing and playing of materials. There's a play with materials that establishes a dialogue between them. We need to make decisions and piece out of that dialogue to see what kind of conversations we can come up with. A piece begins to take shape, thus creating form. Sometimes we make aesthetic decisions that causes inclusion and exclusions of our work. There's a process of initiation to what begins to emerge whre a journey begins to form through our art.

Paper Mache



Materials used:
Wheat paste, brush, spoons, sponge, water, tray

Ways to start our own class:
- Ask in our classroom, what we have in our trays.
- Look at the paste powder and examine qualities. (Smooth, grainy...)
- What will happen if we take some of our flour material and mix it with water?
- Let's all try together.
- How many spoons of water do we need to change the flour? What happens when we do?
- How about another spoonful? What happens?
- Lets keep adding to make it a creamy texture. How many spoons of water do we need to make that consistency? (1 scoop of flour to 6 scoops of water.)

If children do it themselves, they know the process and can understand what actually happens to the qualities of materials. It helps them connect their experience to the project. It also helps them think through the process.

Project:
Take pages of telephone directory and cover paper with wheat paste, all the way to the edge. See how you can change the paper.