Collage and Connection:
This term we examined collage and connection. We reflected on our lives during lockdown and what it has meant to be isolated from friends and family and not have the freedom to travel around. To begin the process, we looked at artists and how they can help us to reflect on our world and our own place in the world.
Students reflected on what it is to be connected. They discussed that connecting can be with people and also with nature. They were inspired by the Indigenous connection with the country, with the land and nature. They explored what it means to be one with nature.
We used the work of indigenous artist, Kent Morris, to understand what being connected meant, and to reflect on our own connection with the natural world, through his work, Never Alone.
We realised we had stories, and after sharing these stories, we began to understand how nature had the potential to provide comfort, and help us to feel ‘Never Alone’, but these stories were sometimes hidden. Sometimes we weren’t aware that we had a connection, but after hearing the artist’s story and our friends’ stories, we realised we each had a story of our own and that we could show our connection with the natural world through these stories, pictorial stories and collection of artefacts …
We began to document our stories in pictures:
Below is Ruben’s story. It led him to think about the life of that blossom and whether it was aware of the feelings of our situation and what it would be to be free of concern.
Here are some other stories of connection shared by the students:
