sense of place

I really enjoyed the links that were provided and the ideas your former students came up with. In the wish you were here blogs some of the photograph collages Amy and Ann made were just beautiful. I went through all of the wish you were here blogs as well as the sense of place, sounds of the city blogs and thought they were all beautifully put together and well thought out.

To get some ideas for the sense of place silhouette we had to create, i thought a lot about what I was most familiar with and what came to mind were all of the silhouettes my parents had done of me as a child. i also thought about how most silhouettes we see in the present and the past usually have a white background with the image being in black or color. I wanted to do something different that incorporated light, literally.
I used white cut outs of trees as well as light posts (that is where the light comes in), i wanted to incorporate my sense of place with my everyday life. I work and go to school in the city but live in Conshohocken, and although that isn't so far outside the city, there are definitely more landscapes, and tree lines. The lamp posts obviously tie me to the city, you don't normally notice the lamps during the day, but when the lights are on at night they guide you everywhere. I came up with the tree scape idea my self and just began cutting out paper shapes, the lamp posts i printed offline and i used black construction paper for the background. i decided not to adhere it completely everywhere because i liked the play of the shadows the white cut outs made on the black paper.

I think this could definitely be used as a lesson plan, putting emphasis on different collage materials that could be used representing each students choice for their individual sense of place, whether its at home or somewhere they might go. Having a light box in the classroom to further explore ideas is also a great idea to get them to think outside the box and use they're imagination.