"In the jungle, the mighty jungle..."

"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye..it also includes the inner pictures of the soul"

Edvard Munch. 1863

Today,just a short little video of a student working on a drawing she did a lot of work on at home.  In the past, I very seldom allowed students to take home current art work to finish it or work on it.  My reasoning was simple.  I feared two things: 1.  The student would finish the work, bring it back to class and then I would need to find something else for that student to do while the rest of the class was still working on that assignment, and 2.  the student would take home a piece of work that had been kept nice and neat in his/her drawer and portfolio, work on it at home, and bring it back all rolled up, wrinkled, and the "worse for wear".  THEN how would it look up on display for all the world to see next to all the very neat and nice work of the rest of the students.  Nothing doing for THIS control freak.

So what's different now?  First of all, since it IS their work and THEY are the ones who will be grading it, deciding whether or NOT to display it, and hopefully feeling good about their work to the point of taking extreme care of it and ultimately hanging it in their rooms at home, I tell them they may take the work home at ANY stage.  If they DO finish it, more the better, because then they will have time to pursue other work they now have time for.  I don't need to FIND THEM work since they are in charge of deciding what it is they are doing.  I just need to remind them to investigate, research, read, and "try out" whatever suits them.  What fun!