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GEOPARK ARTIST PROJECT - ANNA KELEHER Researching the Agency of Things + Talking With Things. Supported by the National lottery through Arts Council England

 I want to make science not art!

Today was my first Soils and Seashore schools workshop experience and I really liked it. I noted a lot of similarities between Art and Science. Based on today's evidence I'd say that Science is so like Art and Art is so like science it is hard to tell which is which!

Like a magician Emily had the groups of kids turn Sand, Limestone, Water and Plastic into Living Geological Dioramas which would teach the effects of erosion on the different rocks that constitute our bay.

Now, as an artist I have a history of making experimental dioramas. I like making them a lot in fact. come to think of it, it is a large part of what I do. 

Lately in New Mexico I breathed life into an archaeological site model using sand. earth, air, water and miniature ladders. Participants watched the Bringing the Pueblo into life Ceremony through binoculars. I like to capture the outcomes of my living dioramas on camera and sometimes I like to watch them grow. 

Back home in UK I am feeling at home with this science lesson. Its OK. I really get it and i know the kids are getting it too. Makiing dioramas is  a fantastic and imaginative way to bring geology to life.  

I am really inspired to make some dioramas of my own again in the Geopark. I'm going to think Science not Art this time and see what happens. !!

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