2nd? wire.
3rd? eggs.
eggs?? excuse me???
come again???
Let me explain.
my most recent assignment in 3D design was to make a pinata. Now you are thinking:
"Pinata? and Eggs? In the same sentence? whaa?"
Teacher gives assignment and these are the rules:
1. the pinata has to have a relationship between content and form. [Meaning, what you stuff it with has to be related to what it is.]
2. consider placement, where will your pinata best be viewed. [Hanging like a traditional pinata? on the ground? outside? inside? above the stairs? hanging from a tree? options are pretty much endless]
3. How will you break open the pinata? [hammer? bat? golf club?] Will you break it open or will the class?
4. think about what a pinata is. How do you define pinata? [guaranteed at least one person in every art class I have will try to redefine something. At the beginning of this course a student got frustrated with the teacher and declared "ahhh, man. Music IS sculpture." He stopped showing up after 2 classes.]
So, this project sent me home on the bus thinking of creative pinatas. I knew every single person would go along the path of paper mache' and there was a part of me that wanted to do some re-defining. At first I was down the path of gross things like:
- I could make little ants and each one could have a cherry tomato in it and each person could have one to step on. [Katie, what are you thinking??? that's so gross!]
then I thought....
- I could make a big rain drop and fill it with lemon drops and gum drops. [oh the nanny in me. Isn't that a barnie song??? "if allllll the raindrops were lemon drops and gum drops oh what a rain that would be!]
....I can't think of the other things I was thinking of at the time but none of them were great. But then I thought of things that were breakable. And down the path of redefining I went.
I some how thought of my family's tradition to crack easter eggs over each other's heads. Eggs. hmm... eggs are breakable. And certainly not paper mache'. I presented this idea to my teacher the following class. She was in support of anything that would stretch the conversation of "What is a pinata?" I told her of my family's tradition and in the midst of our excitement we talked of having an easter egg hunt in the classroom and actually doing it the way my family does. After thinking about this I stopped myself.
I am no longer redefining pinata. This is just an easter egg hunt. and So I stepped back and said. "hmm..... if I hung the eggs, that could be justifiable." and so I hung them. And I wrote each person's name on an egg to give them each their own pinata.
So, today was presenting day.
I arrived to school early and hung them on the lowest ceiling I could find which just so happened to be in front of the classroom door. As students arrived they walked through the little hallway of eggs I made. And since I got there early, I was able to take a picture for you all... Here is my little pinata adventure at a glance, taking all the steps my family does only instead of hiding the eggs, I hung them.
[look mom and dad, Aunt Linda, and Aunt Sue! I dumped 3 eggs with out breaking the yokes! Used these ones for the cookies! :) ]
Class picture....
The Lady behind the older lady with the long hair on the left, the one looking proud with the big smile on her face? is my teacher. I know, she looks like a student, and well, she kind of is. She is a grad student at PSU or was recently... not quite sure. But I really like her!
Fweeewwwwh... so, that was a long one. But I hope you enjoyed. Never a dull day in the life of this lady. :) Hope you are all doing well. Enjoy your eggs!
Love,
Katie
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