day 7 – Taking Breath

June 30, 2015

After a week here we’re looking again at what we’ve discovered so far and thinking of how we could start to make something out of this.
We are here to share the experience of finding out about something we previously didn’t know anything about, or not very much in any case.
To swop our thoughts and ideas so that we both get a better picture of how we each look at things.
All this material will then have to be shaped and cut-up and moved around to make something that we’re thinking could tell what it’s like to be a (nearly) 12 year old going to Switzerland.
As an illustrator i have the experience to put our story into pictures but want Elis to tell the story.
The sketches he makes as we go along reveal both a childish enthusiasm for everything that’s different; bigger, higher, brighter, tastier, steeper, faster combined with a schoolboy’s desire to understand how things work.
So he is equally impressed by lakes, Wow! mountains, Wow! …tunnels, stars, sports cars, lizards, a long list is forming of Wows! that he is trying to identify and name.
In a similar way i’m doing the same thing even if the things that do also bowl me over (as Switzerland is an impressive place) are not at first the same.
But Elis’s enthusiasm is catchy and my list starts to include entries like orange Maserati and San Gotthard tunnel; 16.9 kilometers…