2nd Field trip to Navet: A World more green (I hope!)

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Planet Earth seen from Space is just that…a planet. With no barriers, no military actions, no wars, no political divisions. Just a little and blue planet.

The condition of our Planet must receive huge attention! Sustainability is the key word! We all must stay together and fight against this cause. 

In this workshop we were challenged.

During the first part of the workshop we had a lecture about the ecological concerns from this era.

The majority of daily life´s objects are made with plastic. This material is everywhere! It is in our house´s floor, in our shoes, clothes, furniture…everywhere! However, the chemical´s properties from the plastic has a big impact in Nature and even in our own health.

We must have clearly in our minds that everything that we throw away remains on Earth. Nothing disappeared! Everything remains and eventually it will be spread.

After the lecture we had to create a masterpiece using recyclable materials. Our piece of art had also to have an ecological message behind it.

My team and I created a “Crocoplas” a new animals species made of plastic and cardboard.  It´s already exists a plastic island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. If we don´t take care of our Planet the future´s animals will be like that frightening creature. 

On the second part of the workshop we build robots made of recyclable objects (once more). This little robot had to paint in a creatively way.

My work mate and I created a robot made of a plastic box. To be able to draw we add it a long paintbrush.

In the last part of the workshop the group made a battle between the robots. My creation lost…it was created with a soul of a painter...not from a fighter.

All this work led me think.

Making art with recyclable materials brings to me such a powerful message! We are used to look at art as something erudite. It is really impressive when a masterpiece is made with ordinary objects, like old boxes, plastics forks, plastic bags and another kinds of wasted materials.

When a child makes art with ordinary objects it is giving it a new sense. This will allow it to look at the world in a much more creative way. The banal materials would be treated as an opportunity to create new things.

Reusing the old to make the new is also a science´s law! Everything that already had existed once will remain forever. The caterpillar is born, grows and becomes a butterfly. The butterfly live, fly and died. Its molecules will spread through earth and they will feed a tree, a plant or a creature. The butterfly will remain in the others. It´s a cycle! A beautiful cycle! 

We should let the children experience this phenomenon in many sorts of ways.