Monday, October 27, 2014

Flying Paper

Between forms to be filled, reams to be gathered, dismissal notes, and backpacks full of pencil-outlined sad-missing-mommy-faces and/or I'm-a-big-boy-now rainbows, the beginning of the school year always generates an abundance of paper. In the BNS hallways paper is flying! What seems to be a math project focused on abundance and cumulation and comprised of graph paper cut into ten 100-square sections has culminated in a sculptural installation of that waves to excited children hurrying by



Meanwhile, more discreet investigations ensue: Pre-k kids explore contrasting colors through tearing paper and gluing curled pieces down; first graders' collages jump and tease as they cut, fold and play with volume.