Empire community project week 6
June 9, 2009 Community
Daniel and Maria decorating the waves with sugar and loose tea.
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Photos by Nick Landau
I am Shauna O’Brien and have been on an internship at Museum of London with Lucie Fitton, the Museum’s Inclusion Officer. I’ve been helping out on some of the community projects, as you may have seen from the previous blogs. Today was the sixth week of the Empire project. The final plans for the art work to be displayed in one of three under floor display cases in the new Gallery were made over the last couple of weeks and today the group continued decorating the waves.
Last week the group painted sheets of card with diluted coffee and today Judith Hope, the artist working on the project, and Sousan Luqman (lecturer at Barnet College) cut out the wave shapes from the stained paper as the rest of the group decorated. We used loose tea and white demerara sugar to sprinkle on the crest of the waves to create a graduated colour effect. The decorating was very relaxing and the group managed to get them all decorated by the end of the session.
Next week the waves will be attached to the base of the display case and the group will have a go at carving ginger, and gluing coffee beans together to make small ships to float in the ocean the group will have created!