Thursday, November 11, 2010

Ben Volta Lecture October 26th

I really enjoyed listening to Ben Volta speak, because the projects he does are all around inspiring, really. He worked with kids recently to make a humongous building mural. That alone is intriguing, but the way him and his group of kids went about creating the mural is what got my attention. Ben wanted to display multiple different rooms that a home would have, such as kitchen, bathroom, dining room, bedroom, even a library which he admitted wasn't very common but the knowledge and plentiful books that go along with libraries meshed so well with his project. The kids looked at lots and lots of photos (starting from Google Images) of things that would be inside each room. From that they drew them, and created these patterns that were so thoroughly designed that they were hardly recognizable. I loved the end result.