With all the interest in the textures of the things we see on neighborhood walks (things like the spiky cactus, and the rocky soil), Cindy offered explorations with acrylic mediums that offer different sensory representations within the paint. The West Wing children began with one collaborative, warm-toned painting and one cool-toned with additives made for acrylic paint applied using plastic palette knives.
Luca demonstrates for Mehana: Use it like this (the palette knife). We need to spread.
Juliet: It’s a kind of ocean that I saw in Florida.
Barrett: Like the Florida that tornados.
The children relate to the texture through their experiences and imaginative combination of ideas and created a shared memory of the material. We hope we hope to see this enter the expressive representations in the East Wing for a more detailed insight into the children’s associations of memory and knowledge applied to new communications. This is the beginning to many more opportunities as we see materials as a key component to expressive languages.
. – Cindy and Kris