Artwork: Spiral Jetty

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11/30/16

Today our friends were shown a picture of artwork called a “spiral jetty”. We asked them questions like: Did it happen naturally? Is this piece of work permanent? How do you think it got there?

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We then let our friends try to recreate the artwork with their very own materials and they figured out the answers to these questions!

 

The children were prompted to create their own drawings using rocks which helped them come to several conclusions. They discovered  that the artwork must have been man made like the shapes they were creating! They also noticed that eventually it would disappear and it was not permanent just like their own work.

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“It looks like a symbol” -Holt

They ended up making several wonderful pieces of art! Here are a few more images: