Memory, maps and landscapes
Memory, maps and landscapes.
Depending on the topic you have at hand and and you wish to develop a narrative accountability process upon, you may also draw landscapes like Van Gogh did. First look at some of his drawings and discover how he draws, using little lines and stripes, vertical, horizontal to create movement in the drawing, making a composition with a clear horizon, yet nog being to precise in the representation of reality. http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Drawing/ The drawing above was made in the Arles area, in the south of France in 1888. Van Gogh used a Reed pen to make it.
Material
-Nice A4 drawing paper at least 120g.
-A pen, a marker or a pencil or oil pastel
-For the sense making, sticky notes or pieces of paper and pens
Training step by step
Step 1. Ask participants to close their eyes for a moment and bring back to memory your favorite landscape or imagine a future landscape. Examples:
-the landscape from your bedroom window when being a child, - the image of grandparent’s garden in summer holiday.
- the map of their neighbourhood,
- imagine wishes for lived the built/ green environment in the city they live… etc.
Step 2. Draw the landscape that pops up in your brain.
Step 3. Show drawings to eachother and discuss about place and space, environment, housing etc. Depending on the topics you have at hand you may also write a story, opinion, viewpoint
Step 3. Make common sense of them. What common values do you have while thinking about green and built environment. Bring all drawings together or make a new common drawing, based on the shared values that pop up .
Based on the pictures drawn you may have a conversation about wishes and dreams for the (built and green) environment.
Above art works are made in workshop at Museum Cobra in May 2023.ã Photos; Sandra Geelhoed