The thoughtful artistic process in Barcelona

I have chosen this photo because I like very much to make chinese shadows.

I have chosen this photo because I think that I have my own light.

I have chosen this photo because there are numbers in it and I love numbers.

The artists at SOLC in Barcelona have shared their creative process of making a self-portrait.  They sketched their ideas of what personality traits and things about themselves they would like to tell their new friends in Finland.  Before they took their photographs they first experimented with the camera and found many different ways to play with the images.

Great job!

The 4th graders at Vesalan Peruskoulu in Helsinki, Finland are making and sharing art with the 5th graders at Escola SOLC in Barcelona, Spain.  Artists in both groups are 10-11 years old.

I choose this picture because exaiting and I love the light and yellow colour.

I love this photo because I thing it’s like sience. It’s dizzy / making you feel dizzy!!

I did dis photos because i like the sun and the lights .And the natural places and other things .And I love dance with the lights and the dark.

I like that photo of one poster of my school because I'm so creative, and this photo too.

I chose this picture because I love sports and I like swim

The Sun:The Sun represents space,I like to study bodies of space.

This photo means the water (of a swimming pool, anything more than water…). I think that can mean many things of me. This is a curious photo for me.

Looking at us through a lens

The artists at Vesalan peruskoulu in Finland are so excited to have new friends in Spain!  We had a good discussion about languages and all the different ways we can communicate.  In the group we have people who speak Finnish, Russian, Arabic, English, and probably many other languages, but we realized that art is a language too!  And today we experimented with using photography as our medium! 

Since this was the first project in getting to know our friends we first thought of things we like about ourselves and characteristics that we would like to share with them.  

Then we experimented with photography!  The characteristics we wanted to highlight guided our camera.  Some of us went outside (in freezing cold weather!) to take the self-portraits while others used different techniques to spread their message such as drawing.  In any case, the final work was a photographic self-portrait.

To round out the session we looked at some self-portraits from Nan Goldin, Josef Koudelka and Zev.  Everybody could share their own perspectives on how that photographic spoke to them.

We look forward to seeing our friend's self-portraits!

The 4th graders at Vesalan Peruskoulu in Helsinki, Finland are making and sharing art with the 5th graders at Escola SOLC in Barcelona, Spain.  Artists in both groups are 10-11 years old.