Lines And Images is a project designed to create a descriptive conversation between two forms of imaginative art, based on an individual's inspiration for creating a better world. This approach provides a special angle that allows each individual to take someone else's photograph of community and form a connection transforming a photo into poetic form.
Through media and political statements it is difficult for even adults in our country to see hope for a better world. Where is the inspiration and hope for achieving these things. We are born with them but often due to a lack of means to express these thoughts young people especially don't believe in a better world here on earth.
This project allows youth participants to seek images around them that stir hope or belief in a better global world. By being encouraged to seek these images, youth will have to consider what it means to have a better world and what it might look like. Secondarily these images will be given to other youth for inspiration of written word, either in poems or prose to describe a better, more hopeful future. Again imagining what this might be, is the first step to making it possible.
If we imagine hope and views of better outcomes in the world then we can create them. By having youth take this initial step, the potential of actually being involved in the world to help make that occur is possible. "All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination." - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison This is the planting of seeds for good acts in the world.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
