FROM SMALL BEGINNINGS...
EMBRACE: A Rock Project
Education
Memory and Storytelling
Being Attentive
Reckoning and
Accountability
Community-building
Envisioning
Project Co-Designed by... Iuliia Ipgrave and Liz Hingley
With invaluable creative input from... Dean Browne and Ebers Garcia
Project Led by... Children and educators across the world
Rocks have been here since the beginning of time. They have looked over this world. When humans first learnt to express their humanity, they did so by painting on caves. Anti-eugenics asks us how do we rediscover our humanity. We ask children around the world to help us in this mission, by finding a rock and drawing a picture of themselves.
INSTRUCTIONS...
- Find two rocks, ones that can be held in your hand. You might find one in nearby nature, in your local park, in your garden if you have one ...there are rocks everywhere when you look. Try to find a lighter colour rock, so that your drawing shows up.
- Take the rock pen, and draw a figure on each of the rocks of how you see yourself.
- Take a photo or ask someone to take a photo of you holding one of the rocks in your hand, with a black background. It is important that the photo is just of your hand holding the rock (like in the photo below), and NOT a photo of all of you with the rock.
- In the form below, fill out...
- Your first name (or nickname) and your age
- The location of where you found the rock (do not provide specific house addresses!)
- And there is a space if you would like to write anything about it, or about our humanity.
- And then click File Upload, and upload the photo of your hand holding the rock (please note there is a 1MG limit).
- After this, we would be very thankful, if you then find another child to give the pen to and one of your rocks, keeping the other one yourself, so that they then can do the same thing.
We will then be mapping these rocks and sharing them on this site, and as part of an anti-eugenic travelling exhibition.
For more work around these themes, please also check out The SIM Project