BSA225, BSA226, Research, 28 March 2016

The Electric Pencil

In 1970, a boy found a pile of drawings in a trashcan.  He held onto them for 30 years and then sold them.  The buyer discovered that the artist had made them while incarcerated in a State Mental Hospital.  He thinks that the title might be a reference to the electroshock therapy the man was "treated" with while in hospital. The drawings have been bound together in a book.  I was touched by how they think the artist carried the drawings with him everywhere, perhaps for comfort, due to the wear and tear on the edges.

WWF Paper World

  An ordinary desk becomes the interconnected habitat of savannah, forest and ocean dwelling origami creatures in this beautiful animation from Mome Animation.  The story is merely that all habitations are connected and the smallest, most insignificant human actions can wreak havoc on the natural world.