February 06th, 2019

Today in the studio we used paper sculpture as a medium to emulate the shapes of pasta.  First, Ellie and Grace came to the studio table.  Grace's plan was to make an "airplane noodle".  She said: "It can fly up in the air and we can chew and swallow it."

Ellie begins by drawing a little, then switches to the tissue paper and glue.  She thoughtfully watches the video of our pasta making experience (using the pasta machine).  She looks carefully at the real noodles we have brought to the table to look at.  She uses the scissors to find out if she can make the real pasta noodles smaller.

Molly comes to visit while we are working.  Grace says to her, "I want you to be surprised.  Broccoli, potato and apricot."  She begins layering the pieces of paper, attaching them using masking tape.  She hands them to Molly, and says, "It's a potato pasta for you to eat.  You should pretend eat."  Molly pretend eats.

When Emilia approaches the table, she says, "Will you help me make the wheel ones?  We could have a truck... with tiny wheels!!"  She and a teacher discuss ways of making the paper look round like the "wheel" noodle.  As she cuts along the edge of a rectangular shaped paper, a thin piece comes off.  "Look... I made an L" she says.  "Do you want to make an L? I can show you."

Ada begins by cutting lots of pieces of the yellow paper, and says, "I'm making a little noodle." She points to a real noodle.  "That's how big my noodle is gonna be."  When there are many, many finished noodles, a teacher asks if there needs to be a plate.  Ada begins cutting a plate, saying "I'm making a BIG circle.  I cutted a little off."  She trims the paper by going around in a spiral.

As Lane works, she says, "I cut it into the shape that a circle makes.  The plate has to be old.  Because we have to put it in the clay machine."  But she isn't making a plate, rather a couple different pieces of pasta (which can be seen below).

Please see below some results of our paper experiments thus far... We will continue in the coming days by inviting some new people to try out the materials.

Emilia's in-progress piece which began as a truck with little wheels, and became "strawberry pasta"

Grace's "airplane noodle" which turned into a "potato pasta"

Ellie's work (which includes a real ditalini pasta if you look really closely)

By Grace

Lane's "New Pasta"

Lane's "big pile of pasta"

Ellie's 2nd work (with two pasta noodles she cut, on a red plate)

Ada's "strawberry banana"

Wolfie's mom Jecca has been sending all kinds of amazing photos from their trip!  We miss you guys... hope you are having a blast!

​While we were eating snack, we decided to film a message for our friend Wolf who is on vacation in Kenya for a little while.  We have been missing him so much.  Ada said, "Maybe he can come visit my mom and dad and me and sisters."  Palmer wants to "send Wolfie some trains."

Happy Wednesday!