tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486539443525997702024-03-12T18:28:45.337-07:00Project Brick 2013Rojiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187120576811606587noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648653944352599770.post-68235567016641226062020-02-15T12:10:00.000-08:002020-02-15T12:10:04.277-08:00My last effort to work with bricks ended with a collaborative exhibition titled The Garden at the Pendulum Gallery in Vancouver in 2017. It has been five years since then. I am at UBC MA, Masters of Arts in Art Education program and once again find bricks curious and intriguing. I just read a section in an article written by Willian E. Doll called the Four R's – An Alternative to Tyler's Rationale that situate well with my return to bricks.<br /><br />"In a curriculum that honors, values, uses recursion, there is no fixed beginning or ending. As Dewey has pointed out, every ending is a new beginning, every beginning emerges from a prior ending. Curriculum segments, parts, sequences are arbitrary chunks that, instead of being seen as isolated units, are seen as opportunities for reflection. In such a frame, every test, paper, journal entry can be seen not merely as the completion of one project but also as the beginning of another—to explore, discuss, inquire into both ourselves as meaning makers and into the text in question."<div>
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I coloured the bricks in original LEGO colours from the 70's, this is my first attempt at building a structure with them. it failed. Now I am going to try the following:<br />
I have some premixed grout with adhesive in it. It's white, so I am going to add a bit of black acrylic to make it my desired grey. Then, I will build my structure with the grout one bit at a time.Rojiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187120576811606587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648653944352599770.post-1149172654273342972014-03-21T22:02:00.001-07:002014-03-21T22:05:34.442-07:00From the shores of Spain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />Rojiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187120576811606587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648653944352599770.post-8331475120937189812013-07-17T16:01:00.001-07:002013-07-17T16:18:06.546-07:00Port Haney Brick<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Last week on my walk to collect more bricks I came across a cylinder-shaped terra cotta pipe with a logo engraved into the body reading: <strong>Port Haney Brick</strong>. In my follow up research, this is what I recovered: a section from <u><a href="http://www.globalbirdphotos.com/mrpm/174_191_Haney_Brick&Tile.pdf" target="_blank">Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows: A History in Photographs</a></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Today I have added to the collection some of </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">years ago from the same site at Kitsilano </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">"Crescent" </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">beach. They have Algae grown on </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">them through out the years in the garden. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I found the Brick set with the cement in-between </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Kitsilaino: named after Squamish chief August Jack Khatsahlano (Xats'alanexw)</span>Rojiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187120576811606587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648653944352599770.post-58952332541688724712013-07-05T02:27:00.002-07:002013-07-17T15:43:22.942-07:00Day 2, 3, and 4<div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> "Crescent" beach, Kitsilano beach , </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Brick Composition: found bricks, acrylic on </span><br />
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