Composition with children “The End”

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Title
Composition with children “The End”
Description
At the beginning of the task, I placed all the selected objects in front of the group. The children were invited to enter the space one by one, in no particular order. They began slowly and carefully, but soon their playfulness took over, and the task grew increasingly dynamic. The pauses between participants became shorter and shorter until they no longer waited for one another—they simply entered the space whenever they felt like it. As I observed them, I noticed a gradual shift in focus. At first, about half of the girls seemed interested in building storylines through the objects, while the others were more drawn to movement itself—dancing, spinning, and doing cartwheels across the floor. Over time, their attention naturally moved away from the objects and toward the physical experience of being in motion.

At one point, one of the girls broke the rule by bringing in an object that wasn’t originally in the studio. That small act opened a kind of “Pandora’s box,” releasing a wave of freedom in how they related to the materials and to each other. The task reached its culmination when all the girls joined together in a spontaneous collective dance, where the boundaries between object and movement dissolved completely.
ContentConcept
decision making
interaction
space
Sabine Neilande
week 2
composition
Type
Photography
Tagen på plats
Latvia
Tier
2. Decision making process / collective
Collective
Latvia
Type of Contribution
Individual
Source
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