Beginning of Term 2 teaching in Queensland, no students only the staff on campus, all online delivery. Teaching a practical skills based learning subject online has many challenges which I’ve never done it before, so I’ll just jump straight in… I’ve got this, it’s in the can!!
I just have to keep moving.
“Take time to be kind to yourself“
I am so grateful I am a Teaching Artist and have an income and a creative mind to explore this new ‘living’ landscape we have found ourselves in. I am stronger, innovative and more resilient than I thought I was.
Initially when Covid first started I came down with the Flu, I couldn’t get tested because I didn’t meet the criteria. Who could sure, so I isolated myself and stayed home for the next 14 days teaching and the next 14 days preparing term 2 teaching as an online program ready for schools return.
During this time I couldn’t walk far, for long or intensely and ran out of paper so I started to cut up and use old brochures, magazine and disused books to draw on. I kept the Billycan close and moved it as I moved…
I documented the paper before I used it to draw on and then after for 28 days before returning to teach on campus. Except the first day as I was so anxious of the entire situation the world was no in and how it made me feel was completely reflected in the first drawing. From a plumbing brochure of a woman washing her hands, after the drawing it seemed they were bleeding from all the washing.
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Places I couldn’t go
The Maroochy River Golf Course brochure
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Festivals that weren’t going to happen
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Forgot this day to document the initial image from the Horizon Festival Program.
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The Refinery Program brochure for its images of meeting places, people and happy gatherings
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Forgot to take an image of the day before returning to the school campus