Week two of the MetroLand project which, incase you’re not following, is a project run by Usurp Artists and funded by MediaBox. The project is working with refugees in Harrow to enhance their Art skills and in the meantime, interact with them, improve their english, eat together and have fun. This week was a lot easier and I absolutely love working in this way with young adults. We worked with photography, using a digital SLR to take portraits of each participant, we asked the group to think about something, either a good memory, or bad, a feeling or of something significant in their lives. The portrait would depict this thought and the group could look at the photographs and use words to describe how the person felt and what they were thinking. Most of the time they were right, and for the times they weren’t they learned how people can cover up their emotions , this will become really important in the following weeks. we did another small excercise where the group wrote “me” in the middle of a page and used words to describe themselves, they did this in english and in their own languages.
I really enjoyed this weeks session, I felt integrated with the group and much more confident, I hope I have started to buildup the trust we all need to have in people so we dont feel so alone.
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