This past week has consisted primarily of planning: coming up with ideas for the space we’ll create, researching reference photos for those ideas, and trying to figure out what my specific contributions can be.
I’d like to see how the rest of the group feels about creating a sort of mural on one of the walls of our space that consists of line drawings of characters or something else that we partially color ourselves, but that people who enter our finished space can color in with the paint or markers that we provide within the space. Or just provide something within the space for people to draw on that’s less traditional than paper.
Coloring is meditative, it also brightens an experience (symbolic of an improved mental health), it’s also expressive and creative, which are all affective of mental health. If we did something like this, I’d love to contribute to the planning and illustration of it.
It could also be interesting to display art from each of us that was created to the governing theme of “mental health,” in whichever ways we might each interpret that.
I would personally like to draw something possibly in pointillism/stippling – something that’s meditative to create, so my drawing would be reflective of coping with mental health not just in content, but in form. For example, what I’ve been working on for fun the past few days:
And finally, I’d like for us to create a space that’s interactive in as many ways as possible, but a specific type of interactive. I think the potential interactions we cause people to have should be relevant to coping with mental health in some way. We should be extremely thoughtful in the interactions we create.
I don’t know what I’ll be doing this week specifically, since we don’t have the details of our plans sorted yet as a group, so I think the support I’ll need to accomplish my goals this week will exist in the group helping to define what those goals actually are.
