What? What am I listening to?
posted by Paula Henihan at 6:05 PM
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
This week I was invited to be a visiting artist in Hartstown Community School in Dublin. I worked with a bunch of first year students. We made great mono-prints and I talked to them about my experience so far as a practicing artist.
The school has an arts week each year which is intended to bridge the gap between education and the world of art outside school. It is so important that each subject in our schooling is linked to their place in the world outside of school. This contextualization gives students a reason for learning, a platform for questioning, and an understanding of the possibilities and expectations of life after school.
posted by Paula Henihan at 7:49 PM
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Listening to Lyrics
I'm tired of being here
On this hill
No-one lives to be three hundred years
Like the way it used to be.
I think they were giants.
Midlake, We Gathered in Spring
posted by Paula Henihan at 5:17 PM
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Listening to words
"A building leads three contradictory lives: as a component of the surrounding community, as habitat and as property.
If you view your house as a home, you''ll adapt it and it will become gradually ever more interesting. If you view it strictly as property, just an investment, it will become ever more standard, to meet the imagined desires of potential buyers. Seeking to be anybodies house it becomes nobodies. All the years of life in the house end up meaning nothing."
Stewart Brand on How Buildings Learn a documentary series based on his book of the same title.
posted by Paula Henihan at 8:51 PM
Saturday, February 07, 2009
Oliver Jeffers is an illustrator, painter and generally a creative all rounder. His picture books for children are great fun and his paintings are excellent. Definitely worth a browse.
posted by Paula Henihan at 8:25 PM
