An Afterthought

Thank you for visiting our blog and playing a part in our Ecology Service Learning Project.

In the past few months that Raven and I have been working on this project, we feel that we put forth some of our best, although not very well managed, creative ideas and messages. Our goal through this project was to express the message that everything is connected, a message that Mr. Bursch told us in the very beginning of the year, on the first day of school.

Raven says: "Wait until Paul Bunyan sees this tree."

Raven and I wanted to represent our opinions on ecology, one that Mr. Bursch's lessons and projects from the first semester has helped us develop. From The Story of the Seed project where Raven and I first met and worked together, all the way to this afternoon when Raven and I playfully bantered about Pringles and cupcakes in class. We took a while to finish what we had in mind at the very beginning of this project, but we still made it (just in time too...) here, satisfied with our work.


In summary, our project consisted of two parts: the painting and this blog.
The painting was simple. Artistic expression, a fluid design. An idea that we winged from the start (contrary to Raven's short monologue about sketches a while back). We took plywood, and emptied our ideas about ecology onto it through paint. It required lots of green stains, dried paint, rolled up sleeves, long nights and cleaning, but it also involved laughing, junk food, and the peaceful hum of a few artists' collaborations.
This blog was even simpler. A log, a recording. An unplanned mess of technology that somehow got done. (Edited time stamps, 1 a.m., an essay left unwritten for the next day?)

Can you find the flaming space bunny?

And so, once again, Raven and I thank you, dear reader, for even playing the part of a single view of this blog.





Post Script: Everything is connected~

Week 14: La Fin

Week 14: La Fin
(Guys, I'm finally using things I learn in French)

This week is our final week!
Izabella, Raven, and I came in and finished the leaves (which turned out beautifully, may I note). We touched up on the background, Raven got to add in her little bunny (so adorable if you can see it), and we added the stars. I got poked with a paintbrush, but that's okay because it adds color to my tank top (I only wear blues and blacks everyday anyways).

Week 13: The *Second* Return of the Jedi (Oops)

Week 10: The *Second* Return of the Jedi (Oops)

We have returned (again.)! We can pretend to have time management skills, right? Okay, I'm just kidding; we have some pretty decently legitimate excuses this time. Raven and I have been working on projects in our other classes, in addition to another project called Co-Teaching (a different story for another time) assigned to us by our lovely teacher, Mr. Bursch.

This week, Raven, Izabella, and I are working on finishing everything except the leaves and the touch ups for the "space" background. Raven wants to add in a flaming space rabbit (Raven, I don't remember what the name is; I offer my sincerest apologies), I believe; we will have to figure out how to integrate that particular image into our painting.