End of Term

On the Inside (bark, wire, nuts, leaves - March 2010)

End of term was also assessment time. I finally got my head around collage and put together the above piece looking at bark as it falls from the tree. I wanted to encourage the viewer to look beyond what you can see to what's on the inside.

Swinging with the Daisies (cardboard, acrylic, string, paper, wood - March 2010)

Our last task for the term was to create a piece (still focussing on the ideas that evolved from our words) but where one dimension of the piece was equivalent to your height. The other link was that it had to have a connection to a favourite object that we had brought in.

Mine was my Gingham Daisy Megacino Mug in a Paisley design. The finished result was this cute swing using a book as the seat with the cover painted in an Indian inspired henna design. The ropes were simple pieces of string with daisies threaded through (to resemble daisy chains) hung from a branch. I could picture myself happily swinging there for hours. I think I might have to make a real usuable one of these.

Roll on Term 2...