Well I made some pathway with these children at St. Radigans today and I have to say care and organisation around working practices is not high on their list of concerns.
The implications of their actions are not concidered. I mean if you step on a paving block which you have just placed on wet cement, it will depress downwards under the preasure of your weight, or pebbles pressed into mortar submerge totaly if trodden on. We had to experience this alot to learn it today.
Exicitment, enthusiasm for mixing stuff up, particularly in a cement mixer was high on their list of priorities. Control and care…………..na. But most of these kids are young.
Do international/premiership football players turn up at the green on the estate and teach football skills?
Will REM, Kate Bush or the Vienna Boys Choir turn up and teach singing or how to read music?
Are boffins from Microsoft going to pitch up with pc workshops, or architects/construction engineers from the Richard Rogers Partnership……….medalists from the olympics.
What is the role of the artist? and why is art the twine that mends the social fabric when it gets torn.
Do artists have shamanistic powers to heal the ills of society?
Tommorow I will take some mortar plastiser and focus on care. Show how the manipulation and modification of materials can help to achieve better results. Tell em that washing up liquid does the same thing, see what their reaction to that will be!
or I could join in throwing model helicopters as far as I can.