At our time here in London we were assigned a collaboration project. Doing some type of activity that involved words and art and combining them together. Lisa, Katie, Alyssa and I formed a group and brain stormed tons of different things. We came up with the idea to make a project of getting pieces of paper, going out, and having people from London draw their favorite experiences.
Some people were a little intimidated by drawing for us so we had a lot of rejections. But we came out with a pretty great result of art and memories that I hope to remember forever.
This is a video of a lot of the people and the pictures they drew for us.One man I would like to tell you about is PETER!
Now I already knew we were in for something interesting when he was wandering around talking to himself before we went up to him. We walked over and asked
"Hi, we're doing a project for school and we are asking people to draw their favorite memory."
Peter stared at us confused for a second. and then rummaged through his big coat to find something. This scared us a little but we found out he was just looking for a pen. we handed him a pencil and then he snatched the ENTIRE stack of papers from Katie's hand.
He began furiously scribbling on a piece of paper mumbling under his breath. He starts with drawing circles and saying
"Lava......you know......Lava?! Where you from?!"
"The United States"
"I from Polland."
"Chile....?! Yes, You know?"
"Yes, we know Chile."
Then he flipped over the paper he drew on and star
ted using another to draw a giant map of Chile for us. He rights in big sloppy letters CHILE on top. He then points out a volcano on the side of Chile. Then in the top right corner draws a picture of Scotland. Inbetween the volcano and a poorly drawn version of Scotland he draws tons of lines connecting the two.
He then stares up at the sky as if he's doing some type of mathematical equation and says
"In -5.....uhhhheemmmm......-55"
and writes his calculations on the paper.
This went on for a while and it ended up in him drawing the whole earth and lines connecting the volcano with more math equations in scribbles.
We started to realize if we let him go on we would be there all day and we would be out of paper. So I asked for his name and then told him we had to go. He asked if we needed a bus but we declined and walked a way a little creeped out, but very amused.
Most of our experiences were normal. People would draw something simple and then be happy to leave. But the memories we gained I really enjoy looking back on. The people here are so diverse. I guess you never know what kind of people you meet, if you don't stop to meet them.
