The conversation with my work is separate from the fragmented dialogues of talking and doing with learners. That is why I like to have a garment as a practical outcome. I can own it at the end of each session, finish it by the next week. I like to do homework as then I come to a conclusion before moving on to the next week. I am fastidious at keeping to the time schedule for the class. That means a clean start and finish time, which allows for sharing practically and socially in that time. What people choose to do in that time is what they get out.
Socially people come in while I am working and I like them for that. People who I know and I can work with. Getting the right group of people for art takes time, they filter in during sessions as they like what the see and what I do. At the moment it is children as the mothers use their energy to be creative at home ! Preparing a class takes meditation during the week making clothes and thinking up activities, ice breakers. I do come in with more emphasis on technical know how as I am not playing with children during the week. I have no children. This is a clean workshop space that moms don’t always have time for.
One learner responded well to a set of fashion models I had pegged up in a frame last session. I think her name was Kelsey. I continues this week to hang up actors and fashion models on a grid line I have constructed in the room. Two lines at 90 degrees to each other forming a cross in the centre of the room, as there is hang space to put models put at various location in the room outside of the frame.