COME LET US LIVE WITH OUR INNER CHILDREN is a collaborative interactive sculpture created by artists Feyishara Adelekan, Rebecca Bersohn, Erica Garber, Casey Glover, Catharine Maloney, Adena Stevens and Liz Zacharia. The title is an adaptation of an original mistranslation of Froebel's philosophy. The following visual diary is the result of the artists' research of Frederick Froebel, the inventor of Kindergarten, and his 20 gifts that combine learning, art and play. As they have, the artists invite the viewers to connect with their own INNER children through play.

Friday, November 19, 2010

GIFT #16





When researching Froebel's Gift #16 I found that this was a sort of nebulous gift in the community of Froebel investigators and enthusiasts. Clumped in with the other 4 sticks, rings, slats, jointed slats and interlacing gifts. All definitions for Gift 16 seemed to be intentionally vague explanations of the group as a whole. What I was able to glean from everything was: that some of the forms were intentionally stiff to create geometric shape, some of the sticks/slats could be used to convey images from life, within this group was an introduction of curved line. When discussing this with Catharine Maloney she suggested that I make a question mark with the materials, which I thought was the best possible summation of my experience with gift 16; it has curved lines, stiff lines, slats and rings and it deals with my overall confusion. This is my Gift #16, "Froebel's Question Mark."

- Rebecca
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