Ritual 2
Water and Earth

Building on the work we did last week, we decorated our faces, arms and  hands with clay and flower petals. We ladled and poured water, passing bowls between us. We moved to sounds and rythms created on drums, keyboard and voice. 

Changing Landscapes

Still exploring contours and landscapes, today we have been shaping using gravity and force.

From a large stretched net we created valleys,  mountains and underground caves and spaces.

Contour and Colour

Shaping new landscapes using sand and projection.

By pouring, shaping and moulding the sand we created new mountains and valleys, new landscapes and scenes. We used the photos from previous weeks work to project  onto the  landscapes. We also made slides and projected these too.

Contours

Projection and Sand Shapes. 

We created sand sculptures and shapes and projected images onto our contours. The images were photos taken over the past few weeks of the cave paintings made during sessions. 

Cave Painting
Today we have been creating our own cave paintings ready to decorate the cave next week.  First we explored movements and actions that could inspire us in our work. We moulded and moved our bodies and shaped ours too. Then, with clay on sticks we drew onto our cave floor, making one big picture.

Going Underground

In this Wednesday's sessions we travelled underground into a cave like environment to create our own cave paintings and prints. Inspired by artists from the Old Stone Age, we used clay and mud to create our designs and pictures.

Cave painting from Cresswell Crags

Swamp.

Squelchy, sucking mud; damp, dripping spaces; dark, dank caves, warm enclosing corners. Today we have been through them, around them and in them. With layers of textured sound inspiring us, we explored the environment, changing and adding to it as we went.

Geological Journeys

This year Level Centre will be exhibiting at Cresswell Crags as part of the Limestone Journeys Project so today we started our journey, exploring  texture, contour, light, dark, layers and all kinds of themes inspired by geology. We have started with mud, glorious mud; it's texture and qualities. After creating a swamp we travelled through, over and under it. The amazing vocal sounds and keyboard music produced by our performers inspired some fantastic atmospheric movement and imagery.