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Holiday Sale

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Some images from the Holiday Sale at Creativity Explored, where the assemblage pieces are showing (December 5 through December 30, 2008). Images forwarded by CE 2 studio manager Francis E. Kohler.

Norman's 4th guitar

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Mel's fifth piece

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frontal view

back view

Toby's 4th piece

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Richard and his finished object

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Jay and his finished tower

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Norman made his third guitar today

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Mel worked on his fourth piece

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Melvin is a great and prolific artist with his own unique vision. He works so fast I barley get enough wood to satisfy his needs to build and paint his objects.

Sue started today transforming a found wood piece

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,Sue Chan participated today in the workshop as well. It was new to her, but she had fun.

Toby working on this fourth piece

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Thomas immersed in his pan america card board pyramid

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Jay's tower got another level today

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Toby's third piece

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Norman's two Beatles guitars

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Richard still loves to work on his piece

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Thanh's second day painting her object

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Thomas working on his cardboard piece

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Melvin painted his three eyed faces on each of his three objects

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Larry is almost done with his house and yard

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Larry wanted to be photographed with his object.

Allura's piece after almost two month work

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Warren's object - his last day of glueing

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Thomas wanted to build the Pan America building

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,Thomas Pringle wanted to build something more complex. We agreed to use card board for his project. He asked me to assist him making a model of the Pan America building in San Francisco.

Thomas is besides Larry the only artist participating in the wood workshop, who wanted to create something specific. All the other artist just went for the scraps of wood and started intuitively to assemble semi-abstract objects, open to free associations, depending on their ability to handle the materials.

Some pieces might look similar, this could be related to the same work method of the majority of the artists and the availability of the same random shapes of wood. This is a scrap wood workshop and unless an artist has a concrete idea, the created objects get a kind of universal appearance unless one enforces his own ideas. Like in Normans case, if I wouldn't have suggested to help him make "Beatles" guitars, he wouldn't have participated at all.

Norman and his second Beatles guitar

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Melvin loves to paint his 3rd piece

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Larry worked on the roof again

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Thanh wanted to paint her piece today

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Warren wanted to have some skyscrapers

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Richard's piece after working on it 2 more days

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Mel's third painted object in progress

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Jay worked on his piece again

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Larrys' house in progress

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Thanh's piece looks kind of manhattenish

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Warren's object

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Allura's piece after working on it for two more days

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Mel started his third piece - Frank Lloyd Wright would be jealous

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Larrys' house

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,Larry was all day busy working on his house

Richard leaning back after working on his project for two more days

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Toby worked on a new piece

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Allura's object after working on it for another two days

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Warren's piece is growing

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Larry likes mixing brown tones

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Warren Jee's object a week later

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Toby used white markers this time

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Norman's Beatles guitar

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Thanh Diep's object

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Richard futuristic

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Mel's painted objects in progress

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Allura's piece after a 2 week vacation

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Mel joined in and slammed to pieces together in two days

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Melvin Geisenhofer working on one of his pieces; he was so fast that I had to let him work on two objects at the same time to allow the glue to dry before applying more wood.

Melvin's piece #1

Melvin's piece #2

He even started to paint one of the pieces the same day. Mel is very focused and works the whole time he is at the center, except for maybe 15 minutes for lunch and to get a coffe around 1:30pm, which might take another fifteen minutes, otherwise he works on whatever project he is involved in.

Warren wanted to participate in the project as well

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Warren Jee can barely move. With the help of a brush attached to a bracelet he was able to apply some glue and to push some wood pieces into the puddles of glue. He had fun working on his piece.

Thanh continuing with her project

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Thanh likes to have gloves before she starts working on her piece. She is cracking up each time when I try to help her putting on the gloves. She is fun to work with and she likes jokes.

Thanh and her pathfinder computer

Jason working the second time on his piece

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Jason works kind of methodicaly and independently, he even gets himself more glue if is in need for it.

Norman and the BEATLES guitar

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Norman Ballou likes to work on anything related to the Beatles, first he didn't want to participate on the project, but when I told him we could work on a Beatles guitar together he was willing to apply some glue and to put some wood together.

He worked fast and focused on the project. The guitar looked pretty cool after working on it for just a few hours.

Larry's piece the day he started painting it

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Larry's house

Larry started to paint his house and yard

Toby's piece after 4 days

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Toby used some color markers today.

Larry's house the second day

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Larry worked on a pick-nick table, chairs, door ways and on the fence for his house. When he was finished for the day he asked me to photograph him with his house

Richard, day three and four

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Richard, his forth day at work

Richards piece after 3 days. Richard is legally blind and has a hard time to coordinate the applying of glue and placing a piece of wood into the glue. He usually applies the glue some where and then places the wood pieces I gave him all over the object, but mostly not into the glue spot. So I guide his hand with the glue brush to the areas where he placed the wood piece, which I have taken away in the meantime, and let him apply some glue; then hand him the wood piece into his other hand and guide it to the spot where he just applied the glue. That way his piece is growing, taking on a futuristic shape.

Thanh working the third time on her object

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Than's piece reminded me today of Matisse cut outs; she has the same delicate joyful balance of shapes.

Allura day 4 and 5

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Allura's piece after 4 days

Allura's piece after working on it for five days.

Jason and Allura working side by side.

Jason, his first day with the project

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I gave Jason Lee a set of wood and glue and he calmly attached the pieces to a board without telling me what he is up to.

Larry wanted to build a house

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When I explained the project to Larry Cather he responded that he wanted to build a house with one window, 2 doors and pathways leading to the house. I gave him found wood pieces in various shapes and some glue and he started applying the wood pieces. I assisted him realizing his project. I try to keep my involvement in the creative process of each individual artists as low as possible. I just assist to their individual needs to realize their project.

Larry applying glue to a scrap wood piece

Jay joining in

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Jay Herndon is starting out his assemblage piece. He decided to build a chinese tower.

Thanh's piece after two days

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This image shows Than's wood assemblage after working on it for two days (just a couple of hours each day). For more information on Than check out her website or her myspace profile.

Toby's piece after the third day

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Toby is a fast working artist, first he did draw some more on the wood piece and then continued the drawing on the paper which covers the table.

Allura's assemblage after three days

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Allura's wood assemblage; process shot after working on it for three days.

Thanh working on the project

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Thanh was really fast, she did this piece in less then an hour. I was astonished how fast and precise she could be despite her disability.

Toby at work

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Toby, Tobert Calonico was not that enthusiastic about the project. He didn't really want to do it, but he focused on it anyway while complaining and nagging all the time ..."ohh my good...."

After two days he slammed this piece together and even painted with felt markers on it and into the wet glue as well. Thats all he wants, felt markers and possibly paper, to obsessivly draw on it and later fold it, and then he tries to put it into his bag, which hangs behind him on the backside of his wheel chair. He usually misses and the folded drawings fall to the floor. He is a good artist.

Richard working on his wood assemblage

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Richard starting off with his assemblage on August 25th, 2008

The piece sometime on the second day.

Richard working on his piece the second day.

I started the project with Richard Pimental, like I did in the last project (sight by touch). I gave him one of the larger found wood pieces as a base and some small stuff to be glued on to the base. He did spread the glue and I handed him from time to time various small pieces of wood to be placed into the puddles of adhesive. I had to guide his left hand, holding the handed piece of wood, towards the area where he brushed on the glue. He dropped most of the pieces into the puddles, the ones which missed I let him rearrange, while guiding his hand. He enjoyed working on the wood assemblage very much. He always seems to be totally relaxed kind of Buddha spirited and having a good time. Later on I encouraged more artists to participate in the project.

Within the first two days Richard, Allura, Toby and Thanh, were into the wood working. It was fun watching them how they all differently approached the project.

The images above and the following are process shots of the artists and their work.

Allura starting off

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Allura Fong applying the first pieces of wood.

In memory of August Walla

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August Walla a Gugging artist

Johanna's paint - drum - sing sessions clip

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Rough cut of various paint - drum - sing sessions with Johanna

Johanna wanted to make a neckless today

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Three necklesses by Johanna Rocha

Johanna wanted to make a neckless for her best friend Elisabeth. I asked her if she had done a neckless before and she told me no. I mentioned to her that she had a great idea and told her to wait a couple minutes until I have figured out what to use to make a neckless. I got some red yarn about a yard long with a nail attached . Afterwards I gave her a piece of model magic and told her to rip the junk in small pieces and then role them into small balls about an inch in diameter. I was astonished, since she hasn't done it before, how skilled she was in rolling the stuff into small balls. The challenging part was to get those little spheres attached to the yarn. I told her to pierce the balls with the nail and then push them back on to the yarn. Since she can't see at all and has not much experience in fine motoric handling it was quite a challenge for her to attach those in the meantime into irregular shapes squeezed balls on to the yarn. It worked and she got them all attached. I had to watch and verbally guide her, while she was handling the stuff, so she wouldn't hurt herself with the nail. It was a fun experiment, we repeated the whole procedure for another two times. She has three necklesses by now, one with red, one with blue and another with black yarn. To me, they look like tribal relicts from the stone ages.

Recent painting by Richard Pimental

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untitled on paper in black, white and grey by Richard Pimental

Experimental drum set clip

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A couple of days ago I saw the documentary Touch the Sound; a sound journey with Evelyn Glennie the grand dame of solo percussion. To me it was an absolute mind-blowing experience how a deaf person can create such amazing music.

Inspired by her work I introduced Johanna to a more complex drumming experience. I did set up an experimental make shift drum set for her, consisting of various jars and boards, to let her explore different drumming surfaces.

I was quite astonished when she repositioned, a couple of times, one jar during her performance. Through hitting the jar it changed it's position slightly which she didn't like, so she brought the object back to the position it was before. I never saw her reaching out to locate an object in space so precisely as she did today about three times in a row until I stabilized the jar for her.

Johanna's maldito clip

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Johanna Rocha singing and drumming her currently most favorite song "maldito",

after having executed the single brushstroke painting "songline 5".

Brush & flat hand- drum-paintings

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"songlines - hand drum 2 and 1" by Johanna Rocha 01.07.08, acrylic on paper

Johanna didn't want to use the drumsticks today, she rather preferred using her flat hands to play the rhythm accompanying her song. After a couple of weeks absence, I briefly reminded her of the project we had been working on before. Happily, she started off as usual, painting broad strokes in black on white paper, and then she started singing her song while drumming with her flat hands into the wet paint leaving hand prints in various color- saturations behind.

Throat - singing + drum clip

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I worked solely with Johanna today. She did some talking, role playing, animal imitations, painting, singing and drumming. It was a trill when suddenly, out of the blue, Douglas started to join into Johanna's chanting and drumming. They were sitting about 4 yards apart both immersed in their own song. To me it was totally mind-blowing to hear Douglas's throat and nose singing. The audio treat lasted only for a few seconds though.

Richard painting

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Richard at work

Dec.03.07

When hearing my voice again, Richard smiled and said hi as usual, in this long stretched kind of singing way like Hhhiiiiii…. I asked him if he wanted to paint again and he immediately turned in his chair towards the easel, standing to his left, ready to go. I affixed a glossy black piece he had worked on before to the easel and gave him a medium size brush and white acrylic paint. After he painted white lines for a while I let him use black color as well. After a couple of hours mixing the white with the black on the surface of the paper he got some grey tones. The piece is getting quite painterly now. I guess he had a good time. We departed me saying bye he saying bbbyyyyeeee…;

Johanna wanted to do another SONG-LINE today. She was eager to sing a song for me I haven’t heard before. She had an old Latin song titled “Bandito” she wanted to sing, anxious to start, giggling all the time while shaking in her chair and rubbing her hands or drumming on the table. She started out as she did before with a black line from the left to the right but this time she turned the brush on the right side of the paper and returned miraculously to the beginning of the stroke. The form she drew reminded me of a stretched Zen circle. Then she did sing and drum on top of her single brush stroke drawing, leaving drum marks on the white paper. Johanna was joyfully giggling after she performed her song. Funny, she is really creative with an admirable sense for rhythm. Later on I let her touch some random objects like a glass, a brush, a cap and so on to tell me what kind of an object she perceives. Most of the time she knew which object it was what she was touching. It’s hard to understand the perception of a blind person with developmental disabilities, maybe it’s impossible. I thought I could make her touch a simple object (a water glass) feel it for some time trying to memorize its form and then draw it on to paper; or I tried to let her touch it with the left hand while drawing with the right. I guess she is not yet ready for this. I wonder how a fully blind person pictures the world, someone who doesn’t know what light or darkness means. I imagine it must be difficult to grasp the shape of a glass which is defined by light, darkness and its dimensions in space. What “sees” a fully blind person in his mind? Are there images at all, or just non image associated sensations of sound and touch? I should talk to somebody blind who is not developmental disabled.

Dec.10.07

When I got to CE2 I started to set Richard up with paint, brush and paper for the “Sight by Touch” painting project.

It’s challenging to work with blind artists. I see them having fun with painting even though they can’t see what they paint. It must be the movement in space, the sound of a brush moving over the surface of the paper and the feel of the brush, or just the joy of having something to do.

First I did let Richard work on a piece he painted the week before in black, white and grey. He added another linear layer to the piece. An hour later I gave him a new sheet of white paper, black paint and a ¼ inch brush and he started right away applying wet and dry strokes. A couple of hours later he had drawn an asymmetric interwoven pattern of black lines in various degrees of color density. The drawing reminded me of an abstract landscape, very delicate, full of transparency and depth.

untitled by Richard Pimental

Johanna wanted to sing, drum and paint again. But I guess the most important thing to her is not to paint, but to have the chance to listen to the song she’d performed later on. I usually take a video of each song she performs, drums and paints. Afterwards I let her listen to it. If she hears my voice in the morning, when saying hello to everybody, she asks:’’ Are you working with me today.” I usually reply:” Sure, if you want to.” And then she says:” And it will be me”? “Yes” I tell her it will be you on the sound recording. I asked her today if she could sing a song I haven’t heard before and sure enough she had three more songs in her repertoire. Since I still have difficulties in understanding what she is telling me, I mostly don’t get the titles of the songs. This time I did let her work on foam- boards. It makes a different drum-sound then paper or card-board. Each time I work with her she opens up more and more. She is much more liberated in executing brush strokes. She is more self assured and doesn’t ask anymore for assistance, but I still hand her the brushes so that she doesn’t have to search for them. She enjoys it so much; it’s a pleasure to watch her feeling happy when holding the camera directly in front of her hearing-aid of the left ear. There is a little switch she turns before listening to her song. She almost explodes of joy, when she hears her voice. It’s a pleasure to work with her.

She did three powerful SONG-LINES today.

Songlines 6, 5, 7, acrylic on paper

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songlines 6, 5, 7 by Johanna Rocha

Richard untitled 1

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untitled 1, acrylic on paper by Richard Pimental

Nov.05. 07

Another 4 hour set at CE2. Gave Richard an almost black painting he has worked on before, to rework it, this time with a ¼ inch brush and white acrylic paint. He is building up layers now. Johanna wasn’t at the center today.

Nov.19.07

I gave Richard today a 3 inches wide brush; this time I wanted him to fill up the paper with black color as much as possible. No matter how wide the brush, he always manages to hold it so that the thin side of the brush touches the surface of the paper. That way it took him 4 hours to almost fill up the sheet with black paint. It’s fun to work with him.

Johanna wanted to do another SONG-LINE. I handed her as before a brush, black color and a sheet of paper and asked her to do more lines this time. She did five lines and then started to sing and drum on top of them. The consistency of the color didn’t really work out this time to spread the color through drumming. The strokes where to dry to let the drumsticks pick up some of the paint to leave drum-dots on the white unpainted parts of the sheet. She had fun anyway and the lines she drew looked good as they where.

Nov.25.07

Today I did some tactile experiments with Johanna and one SONG-LINE. I gave her some cardboard pieces; acrylic based modeling paste, spatulas and a color she chose. She wanted green, I asked her why and she simply answered that green is her favorite color. I wonder what she as a fully blind person associates with colors: a person who can’t see light or darkness at all. I need to ask her more about what colors mean to her. I did put some gloves on her, and let her play with the material spreading and mixing it with her hands/gloves and the spatulas. After a while the gloves, paint and cardboard became one, the gloves stuck on the painting and she just slipped out of them. It looked great; I decided to let it dry. On a next piece of cardboard I let her smear the material and then she engraved the paste like surface with a knitting needle. She drew relief like circles and spirals on it. After she finished the piece she wanted to do another SONG-LINE. I told her to sing a short version of a song, but since she loves singing so much she performed the full version.

Richard fell to day, it seemed as if he lost his balance while feeling his way through space and objects. He stood up unharmed, moved a few steps with his arms stretched out feeling for his chair. As soon as he got back on to his chair and easel, he picked up the brush and started painting again a black blob on a white sheet of paper; as if nothing had happened. I was really glad he didn’t hurt himself. When he paints he sometimes has his eyes closed while painting. It looks as if he would be in a dreamy half asleep mode his hand holding the brush frozen on the paper. I haven’t heard him saying more then the three words, which are “hi”, “bye” and “yeah”. Richard is a very nice guy. He is always calm, friendly, controlled and smiles a lot. He understands pretty well what one says to him according to the circumstances he acts or waits. If I tell him that I’m going to turn the paper for him he holds in his movement and waits till I tell him that all is set and he can continue painting.

Sight by Touch - first experiences

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Oct.08.07

Today I started working with Richard for the first time. He is legally blind and can’t talk much. Except of a few words like hi and bye I haven’t heard him say more then that. He smiles a lot and feels his way with stretched out arms through the art center. He likes to paint and he works with model magic, an air-drying modeling material, with which he forms this kind of white dumplings, through endlessly rolling the material between his outstretched flat hands.

I gave him a sheet of paper and a pencil and stayed with him for an hour or so, to see what he does with it. I guess he liked the sound of the pencil moving across the surface of the paper, since he kept bending forward holding his right ear very close to the spot where the pencil was touching the paper. After awhile I handed him various pastels. He definitely had fun with those, it was a big mess after all: the colors where everywhere especially in his face. I forgot that he can’t see. I felt sorry that I got him so full of colors, but I guess he had fun anyway. It took me a while to clean his face and hands. He stayed calm and smiled at me. No more pastels for him.

Oct.15.07

The third time at Creativity explored.

Today I started my first project with Johanna a fully blind girl. She loves to sing and drum. I did prepared two white cardboard pieces, painted them black and after a short drying process I covered up the black surface with white paint using a spatula. Shortly after I placed the still wet pieces in front of her and handed her two one-inch wide brushes. I did let her grab the brushes the other way around (the bristles facing her) to use them as drumsticks. I asked her to start singing her favorite song and to drum at the same time on the still wet white monochrome paint surface. Full of joy she started, leaving relief like scratch-marks on the surface, letting the black background shine through and even mix the background with the wet white surface, resulting in various grey tones. It was quite exciting to see and hear her executing those pieces, kind of visualized songs (drum-song drawings) or SONG-LINES as I’d call them. I took some short video clips of her, while she was singing and drumming two songs.

Reflecting on the project with Johanna and Richard I decided to reduce my creative input to just handing them the materials they’ll need to execute an art piece. I don’t need to prepare a painting surface for them anymore. They both have the ability to create art without my input.

Oct. 22.07

After the pastel-mess experience with Richard I decided to give him acrylic paint and brushes this time, hoping that he can handle those better without being covered in colors from head to toe. I gave him a “big” 2 inch flat brush, black acrylic paint and a sturdy, white sheet of paper approximately 20x 25 inches affixed to an easel. He went for it leaving black interwoven strokes on the sheet, except of his hands he looked pretty clean and happy after he finished painting 2 hours later. He is very focused and prolific he definitely likes to paint.

Oct. 29. 07

I continued the “Sight by Touch” project with Richard and Johanna.

Richard painted again in black on white paper, sitting at an easel, creating irregular black blobs with a 2-inch brush. I like to watch his dedication to paint; I love to see him paint while he follows with his eyes a sound or a voice he picked up in the room.

Johanna wanted to sing again. I told her about the project I wanted to collaborate with her, basically a further exploration of the drum-song drawings, which I call SONG-LINES. She agreed happily giggling and rubbing her hands full of joy, while bending her upper body back and forth on the chair she was sitting. I handed her an one inch flat brush and let her feel where the jar with black acrylic paint was and told her to execute a single brush stroke (sumi-e) on the paper in front of her. “Can you help me?” she asked. I let her touch the edges of the paper and told her to just make a brush stroke from the left to the right. Slightly insecure she drew beautifully a black line with no purpose and no intension. Afterwards I gave her two brushes the other way around (bristles towards her, substituting drumsticks) and told her to sing and drum on top of her SONG-LINE. She performed again full of joy hitting the black line with the brushes and spreading it in small dots on the white paper while singing her song. She has an amazing sense of rhythm. I had to move the paper once in a while to guide her drum strokes into the wetness of the black line. She did three Zen- like masterpieces today.

Songlines 1, 2, 3 acrylic on foam-board

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songlines 1, 2, 3 by Johanna Rocha

Sight by Touch - introduction

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Notes about my experience as a volunteering artist at Creativity Explored, an art center in San Francisco, dedicated to assist artists with developmental disabilities.

When I started volunteering at the art center I became very curious and interested in the two blind artists working there. I got permission from the staff and the two artists to work on a project with them, which I call “Sight by Touch”. Sight by Touch is an art project that explores the perception and the creative process of blind artists working at Creativity Explored.

Participating artists Johanna Rocha and Richard Pimental:

The project is currently limited to works on paper cardboard or foam-board using the two non-colors black and white. The project is documented in the following notes, images and clips.

For further information about the participating artists or to purchase one of their featured artworks please contact Creativity Explored.