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Creative Potential 1/

Family Memory (for college, graduate students or adults)

– A Time Piece that Reminds Us of Memory and Preciousness of Life

Find an old photograph of family members that includes grandparents, parents, children and grandchildren. Carefully cut out the heads of those who have passed away. Archive the heads into a wooden box. Put them into a drawer to archive once all of the people in that picture have passed away. Frame the final piece when all of the heads are cut out (there will be no final piece as long as the generations keep passing on). The boxes may not be opened to respect the dead, but can be shown as an object installation along with the cut out photographs.

Connection No.1: Children in the old photograph

Connection No.2: Children who cut out the elderly ones who passed away (or vice versa).

Connection No.3: New born children who will continue the project.

Creative Potential 2/

Body Print Performance (photo activity for children ages 8-14)

Arrange a group of children, at least three, ages 4-7 to step into buckets of paint and with their feet, dip their fingers into them, and make body prints on a large sheet of paper. Document them playing and take photographs of the end result.

Use Photoshop to add different geometric shapes onto the organic shapes to play with juxtaposition of contrast in material and in shapes.

Connection No. 1: Children who participate in performance

Connection No. 2: Children who model for the photographs

Connection No. 3: Youngsters who document and take pictures of this activity.

Creative Potential 3/

Abstract Photo Collage & Paper Sculpture:

Take a group of young students ages 15-17 around their neighborhoods and freely take pictures of the surroundings. Suggest to observe specially to the structure of the architectures. Print them out in black and white, cut out interesting geometric shapes and regroup them into one unified abstract shape, collage it onto a bright colored piece of paper. Make a separate paper sculpture from the image of the collage to echo with it.

Connection No. 1: Children who participate in taking photograph

Connection No. 2: Children who make collages from the photographs

Connection No. 3: Children who make sculptures from the collages