During this 3 days workshop, we explored the use of natural and recycled materials to create a mixed-media artwork.
We took the time to reflect and express concerns about the protection of our environment.
Love Is In The Air
Alexander Calder was the pioneer of the “mobile”. His mobiles made possible to see art as an idea in constant movement. His balancing artworks made with industrial materials in the nature made spaces in great harmony.
I personally, as an artist that believes we live in constant movement even in times where we could think all is stuck, mobiles give me that feeling of pace, balance and harmony, that's why I love to create and recreate them with my students.
The creation of mobiles is a kind of meditation, we focus our mind in creating the right balance, in doing knots that allow to hold our ideas and feelings and hanging just the necessary elements to create and harmonic movement with air, breath and time.
Here my lovely 6 – 8yrs worked hard and gracefully during 3 sessions to create these beautiful Mobiles … Love is in the Air !
Art - Feelings - Mindfulness
And the connections between Brain – Language - Body
Kids 4 - 8yrs
Art is a good tool for expressing feelings and a deep form of communication. It helps consciously or unconsciously to reach emotions such as frustration, anger, sadness and get them released. Art helps healing those emotions and help in preventing and healing stress, anxiety and depression.
We learn little by little to feel the body and mental needs when practicing mindfulness. In turn art is a strong tool for mindfulness. Both helps in boosting self-confidence.
We have being living difficult times during the last years due to Covid. Strict sanitary measures and the virus in itself have provoked lot of stress and distress in thousand of peoples in the world. Hong kong has experienced one of the strictest measures with schools, parks and sport facilities closed several times for months each time thus kids have been forced to stay for long periods indoors. Measures have been easing little by little recently and finally we can come back to classes. I though it would be a good idea to dedicate the first classes to talk and express feelings and emotions. Trying to create connections between brain-language-body to release tensions, stress at same time we reflect, we put words, colours and strokes on it.
A (4.5yrs) represented her mum's belly while pregnant of her bigger sister !! That's pure love!
- Promote wellbeing.
- Help to manage and reduce stress and anxiety.
- Create mindfulness practices to use throughout the school and homework time.
- Learn healthy habits.
- Improve communication.
- Deepen relationships with relatives and classmates.
- Activities / games to focus the mind.
- Singing.
- Stretching and exercising.
- Art and Crafts.
- Journaling.
- Breathing and relaxation exercises.
