After many failed attempts to access my blog from various friends machines, success has come almost half way through the Library of Memory project so I've a little catching up to do. Yesterday was the mid-way installation in conjunction with the WW1 remembrance show and event of the 11th. The understanding of form, proportion and selecting just what is of importance in creating a portrait is exaggerated with the use of large paper stock and all of 60 seconds to create their work. Line tone and shadows are considered with all three coming together in the forth final drawing on toned paper. This drawing is finally applied to cereal boxes brought in by the children, sprayed black and a selected portrait from WW1 applied inside.
This is under half of the boxes which will be eventually produced, leaving me sometimes wondering if I should be a little less ambitious but it's a habit and one I wish not to loose if I can.
Having finished that, what was left was the cutting of a spy hole and the installing of the installation.
It's difficult to know just what a 10 year old sees in the faces of those about to experience the undescribable from a hundred years before and what if any sort of link they have with them. But perhaps the simple trick of seeing anothers eyes in the image of themselves may just reach far enough to bridge this generation of comparative peace with those who laid the foundations of our lives today.
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