Thank you to Guest Artist Mia Jordonwood

Today the students were treated to a very interesting presentation by Mia Jordanwood.
She shared examples of her work and stories of her life creating art.

Ms Mia talked to talk to us about installation art. Before she moved to Cambodia she was an artist in New York. She traveled to ten different countries and interviewed people that had a hard life. She would make a postcard each day with a person’s story and picture of their experience on it. This project was called 99 days.

She had interesting ways of sharing her art. Once she asked stories about a person’s life, ordered a cake with the story told on top, paid for it but never picked it up. It sat in the cake shop window and told the story of a refugee's experiences.

When she first came to Cambodia 20 years ago she was asked to create art at Toul Sleng. “It was a sad place”. She made small cement shoes and put candles in them. It was to symbolize the ghosts leaving Toul Sleng

She loved making postcards. She usually used card paper and acrylic paints but sometimes she made her postcards collage. Some of her postcards were inspired by refugee’s stories. The refugees she talked to lived in cells and were only allowed out for one hour a week.

The Grade 4 students will be creating their own postcard on Friday. They will be collecting small pieces that they may wish to add to their postcard collage. Their postcard will tell their story about their life and have links with Cambodia.