Mount Oriel Centre, belfast
Title of Work: Life’s Road Trip (A Visual Map)
Facilitating Artist: Frank Holmes
A Visual Timeline - Art through colour, mark making, drawing, the use of text and collage. I talked to the group about creating their own unique personal map, which represents important events, decisions, and choices that helped shape them into the people they are today. During the first 5 sessions the group explored their maps through verbal storytelling that then developed through collage making, using written text, and visual imagery. Themes that were shared within their maps were, childhood, family, ballroom dancing, employment, and marriage. These maps record people’s social history. The maps within the group visually recorded the past, and present, no one looked at the future. The last three sessions on Zoom was all verbal discussion, and main theme was Covid, and how the virus was impacting on their family life, socialisation, holidays, and freedom. Over the three sessions the group as a collective offered different symbols that they felt represent covid, and as artist I compiled an image on Zoom whiteboard that included everyone’s symbolic voice. This was a great way for the Project to end.
