AHRC Project

In my Living and Learning Community we recent got an assignment that entails creativity. Our class was broken into small groups mine has four including myself. We each received a blank canvas and basically have free range to do whatever it is we like, the only thing is that our group has to have a common theme among us and we have to incorporate the campus read, “ The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind”. The main object that the book is set around is a windmill that is built by William (the main character in the book) who literally constructs it from looking at a picture in a book.

The windmill William constructed.

With this in mind my group had our jumping off point, we knew we wanted to include a windmill somehow on each of our canvases. This meant we would need a background and we each agreed that we wanted to integrate photography somehow. We had the idea of taking black and white shots of Boise and the BSU campus and use this as the setting for our windmills. Each of us would take our own photos and all have different backgrounds so to speak.  After we mounted these photos on our canvases (14” x 18”) we each could put in place out own interpretation of the windmill using whatever medium we like. All of them will be done in landscape and when we are finished we will display them side by side in the hall. (I will include more pictures when we get started.)