We looked at Louise Nevelson’s mammoth works, and pooled all families resources. Donations of corks, bottle caps, CDs, egg cartons, and old electronics rolled in. Each of our 56 children filled their shoe box and went to town, as it were. Some boxes were symmetrical and studied, some were a more frenzied horror vacui situation. Some children thought quite literally ‘outside the box.’
The results were tremendous! We observed how we salvaged old discarded items, trash and recycling, and converted them into something beautiful. It was powerful to see how the individual pieces played off one another and came together to become something greater than the sum of its parts. A community effort, for sure.
Elisabeth Wilborn Studio: Artist;Teacher. 