For about 2 months my class has been working on a project we called our Tree Books. These books were more of a art project but it still included many writing components. At the beginning of the month we started working with a famous artist known as Peg Gignoux.https://gignouxart.com/She helped us with screen printing on our books first where we used short sentences about trees and we used paint to put it onto our books. At this point in time we only had pieces of paper so to fix this we actually folded it into a book shape.

Going outside many leaves and flowers on trees so we were told to collect leaves and flowers and we used those to make akua ink prints. This was done by putting the foliage onto a jelly pad we used apiece a paper to make a imprint on it. These Akua prints were used for collaging on our tree books. When we were collaging we added on pockets to our books so we could put our Life List and Salute to My Roots.

Our Life List was basically just a bunch of stuff that we wanted to do in the future but our Salute to My Roots was much more. This writing piece saluted someone who had helped us and inspired us through out our lives. I have to say this may have been one of my favorite parts of the project since I really loved writing about my person(who I won’t say for privacy reasons). When we had finished making our books we were very lucky to be able to have them shown at Frank Art Gallery.https://www.frankisart.com/

In retrospect this was a awesome project and it was so much! I am very  grateful for being able to do this.