Barbara Bridges' Art

From the book, Children's Art Education-Teaching Visual Culture:
"I went to the beach on this beautiful Caribbean island of Cuba and saw miles and miles of abandoned hotels. I walked for 2 miles along the beach and saw many pieces of what we call "sea glass" in Maine. Sea glass is broken glass worn smooth by many years of washing back and forth in the sand. Sea glass is rare in Maine. I picked up an entire baggie in an hour. I also found small pieces of ballast from old sailing ships, flamboyant tree pods, drift wood and the jawbone of a goat on the beach. I decided to use my unit plan to make my OWN futuristic water creature from Cuba. What might change in Cuba by the year 5050?






	Onion by Barbara Rogers Bridges Click on image to see a larger version.

	The artwork “Onion” is a hybrid style of art, which incorporates Postmodern, and Conceptual style characteristics. In the artwork “Onion” I also employed a methodology I will call “recordari”, from the Latin “to remember, call to mind (re-restore and cor, genitive, cordis heart, understood by the ancients as the seat of judgment and memory” (Barnhart, 1988) (p. 896). I would like to identify “Onion” and artwork like it, as representing our “lived experience” (VanManen, 1990) in visual form. I suggest we are practicing “recordari”. “Onion “ takes you on a journey, which explores and records all the communication modes employed by our virtual community. Click to learn more about this artwork.



	Take to the Air by Barbara Bridges From the book, Children's Art Education-Teaching Visual Culture: "I went to the beach on this beautiful Caribbean island of Cuba and saw miles and miles of abandoned hotels. I walked for 2 miles along the beach and saw many pieces of what we call "sea glass" in Maine. Sea glass is broken glass worn smooth by many years of washing back and forth in the sand. Sea glass is rare in Maine. I picked up an entire baggie in an hour. I also found small pieces of ballast from old sailing ships, flamboyant tree pods, drift wood and the jawbone of a goat on the beach. I decided to use my unit plan to make my OWN futuristic water creature from Cuba. What might change in Cuba by the year 5050?



	Women are the record keepers of the culture. See "Recordari" on "Onion". My son wore the bottoms off his tennis shoes in two months and broke many racquets serving when he was 10 years old. He had little league buttons, he had horse camp buttons, he had McDonald's toys. He had Legos. They came out of the shoebox and he walks by his history every time he goes to his room. Even though he is 20 years old now, he connects to his history on a regular basis. In this fragmented world. I believe this empowers his sense of identity. Postmodern art re-purposes what came before and creates a new thought. Morgan's thought. Click on picture to see a larger version.

E-mail Barbara at: bbridges@bcmn.com

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