Artasia at St. Augustine - Dundas Driving Park

Week three’s theme, Time, really stood out to me—especially during my experience at the Dundas Driving Park. The environment there offered a unique opportunity to slow down, especially being in nature. 

For our activity, we created a collaborative art piece by tying yarn and pieces of tape between trees and pegs. We added items such as plastic, tissue paper, and fabric to build up the piece together as a group and created a collaborative artwork.

This moment mattered because it was a chance for children to slow down, and to be present and engaged in the activity. This activity children had to be thoughtful of where they placed the materials and how the relationship of the materials work together. They did this through the use of layering materials and also specifically drawing on them. 

Children had the chance to engage in their own curiosity by placing the items and adding the materials in a collaborative way. This activity connected to this week’s theme of Time because the activity changed over time, well building and creating. Children were able to see the process of the artwork changing over the course of time. Also, when each material was in place, that specific material was in time from when the child added it to the artwork. Our spiderweb created a visual map of our time that we spent together creating. 

– Emma Enright