School’s started! First module is a general catch all, using found objects to create sculptural interventions, inspired by a prompt. As mentioned by the tutor, all of us in the class have different disciplines we’ve nurtured, so this starts us on a level playing field. It’s also so open-ended materials-wise, that it perhaps reveals our intuitive leanings? Already in the first class, she reflected that some of us took the warm-up prompts as problems to solve, creating technical solutions, while others reacted to the prompts more emotionally.

Moi? My in-class prompt was “hiding” - many prompts were actions, like “exploding” or “teetering”. I made two things, an eye hiding under a cup, and paper hands, wrapped around a ball of rubberbands and tape. Despite my technical background, I didn’t “problem solve” - I wonder what that would feel like - :D once an emotional being, always an emotional being?

Reflecting on the 45 minutes we spent making our sculptures, it was a very intuitive time. For me, it was about feeling the word, noting the imagery that came to mind, which was hands, hiding behind hands. And if you’re hiding, you want to be small. Then, I pulled materials out of the pile that I could make hands out of (paper), and materials that I liked (massive rubberbands!). Then, you do, you make, you cut hands out of paper, even if you don’t know what you are making. This is where maybe I’ve already grown a lot - not thinking too much, and trusting in the process, and my inclinations.