Artists and children collaborate to remake unearthed finds

摘要

Watching the children sift through the finds as they were dug from the trench was fascinating; their curiosity for the objects (mostly rocks) that were dug up was something that I can completely relate to, given my curious fascination with inanimate objects and the ‘stuff’ of landscape. This fascination compels me to make objects, or ‘things’, in an attempt to understand them. Often small and able to fit into the palm of a hand, these things that I make are made, ordered and staged on shelves or tables. The workshops that I constructed for Weatheralls Primary School, as part of the Pathways Project, capitalised on and dealt primarily with these intrigues.